So in other words, rather than admitting that your "rule" about conscription was overly broad, factually inaccurate, and historically unsubstantiated, you respond by coming up with an excuse for every violation of it. Then again, I suppose that is how history "works" to somebody who believes Congress was passing a wartime revenue measure over a year before the shots were even fired, eh Mortin?
It wasn't my rule. It was Confederate Law. Every man between the ages of 18 and 35 was conscripted unless he had a lawful exemption in April of 1862, regardless of whether he was already serving or not.
This was done twice again later to expand the age range of those eligle for conscription. Everyone. Especially those in uniform, and if you didn't want to get shot up in Northern Virginia or ordered into one of Lee's famous failed direct assaults into Union artillery, you needed to volunteer in 30 days or find a furlough to delay that.
That was it. No wonder there were so many desertions. No wonder the vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens stated that the Confederate National Conscription Act was the primary reason the south lost the war. No wonder at all.