[billbears]

Is that why it passed a conscription act that it forced on the states in April, 1862?

I don't know, seems the South was just following suit after lincoln's move in April of '61 (even under the Rebellion Act it was still conscription no matter what you call it) and then of course we can't forget the Draft Riots in '63 can we?

[Non-Sequitur]

There was no conscription in the North until 1863, billbears. How you can take a call for volunteers and make that into some sort of draft is beyond me. If that is true then wouldn't the confederate call for 100,000 troops issued before they started the war by firing on Sumter be a draft, too?