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would be conscripted into three years of service.
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They allowed the hiring of a substitute,
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which led to the charge of elitism, which was accurate.
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There were brokers and all kinds of dishonest substitutes.
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One man is alleged to have sold himself twenty times
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for the bounty that he got paid to get out.
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There were exemptions in the Confederate conscription
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public servants, ministers, teachers, editors, nurses, factory
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and railroad workers, miners, and
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telegraph operators.
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Among the Confederate troops out at the front
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they called these people "Bomb-proof" Positions.