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The Militia act of July 1862 authorized the President to employ black people on behalf of the Union war effort as laborers and soldiers.
Militia Act, July 17, 1862. Download PDF Resource. Courtesy of Library of Congress, "Chap. CCI - An act to amend the Act calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasion..." U.S. Congress, pp. 597-600, 17 July 1862.
13 Ιουλ 2023 · But, even with the discrimination in pay, the Militia Act of 1862 was a remarkable assault on slavery. Throughout the Confederacy—and in the loyal slave states—the U.S. Army could recruit slaves to fight for the nation and against slavery.
The Militia Act of 1862 (12 Stat. 597, enacted July 17, 1862) was an Act of the 37th United States Congress, during the American Civil War, that authorized a militia draft within a state when the state could not meet its quota with volunteers.
the militia from its obscure origin in Saxon times has been composed of all subjects and citizens capable of bearing arms, regardless of age or parental authority. The militia system has never recognized as affecting those parental rights over minors which are recognized in the civil relations. True it may be that
An Act to amend the Act calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasion, approved February twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, and the Acts amendatory thereof, and for other Purposes.
An Act to amend the Act calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasions, approved February twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, and the Acts amendatory thereof, and for other Purposes.
