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Chuck, it happened all the time in the Trans-Mississippi Department -- or at least in Arkansas.

The practice of "detaining" furloughed soldiers from the other side of the Mississippi, and "attaching" them to TMD regiments, was initiated by Hindman, as a reaction to the wholesale transfer of the entire Army of the West to Mississippi under Van Dorn. His thinking was, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If it was okay for the Army of Tennessee to steal soldiers from Arkansas, he could darn sure steal soldiers from the AoT.

The practice was continued under Holmes, but seems to have slacked off under subsequent commanders -- probably because Arkansas soldiers in the AoT found it harder to get back to Arkansas in the latter stages of the war.

Technically, these men weren't really conscripted. They were, as Hindman delicately put it, "detained and attached." Unfortunately, those hapless soldiers were reported as deserters back in their original regiments, which caused problems for a lot of them and/or their widows when they later applied for Confederate pensions.

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