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Not legally,

The legal restriction was at the national level. Davis had no control over who enlisted at the state and local level. Remember "state rights".

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The legal restriction was at the national level. Davis had no control over who enlisted at the state and local level. Remember "state rights".

Really? Then where did the Davis regime get the power to extend the enlistments of all soldiers for the duration of the war? Or to conscript soldiers into the army? Which he did in the spring of 1862. Didn't states rights count there?