Civil War conscription was beyond insane. Vietnam era conscription was the epitome of fairness compared to the Civil War, and we all know about the corrupt draft boards during Vietnam.. If you look at how SSS would handle it now, it's much more fair.
Selective Service can be fair now, because they are not taking anyone.
As soon as the scion of a very wealthy and politically powerful family gets drafted, all the corruption will come back into play.
Civil War conscription corruption was worse in the south. Confederate conscripts were send home after years of service, to get better from wounds, and then were reconscripted into their state forces, then re-dispatched to the so false-national government to meet new state quotas.
We have seen conscription in every other nation, and it is much the same. It is involuntary servitude per the 13th Amendment. Only Democrats support conscription in these times.
My great grandfather served in the Ohio Volunteer Sharp Shooters in the Grand Army of the Republic.
Was at Atlanta in the summer of 64 and wrote that it was 110 degrees in the shade.
So much for global warming.