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Re: Conscripting Officers
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From the dealings with them as POW's at Camp Chase it would depend upon the State. Georgia liked to use the term enrolling officer as a conscription officer and usually were junior officers but as the war became longer, Sub-enrolling officers were used usually privates and monitored their county or Militia District along with the local sheriff. Tennessee liked to use the term conscription officers and the quality and ability of the conscription officer would depend on the location and the time period. Likewise it could have been an officer in the Confederate Army to a retired sheriff in a local county. In North Carolina as Glenn pointed out Home Guards were at times conscription officers.

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