| One of the great unmentionables in the current election campaign is the reinstatement of conscription. |
| Mines and constant ambushes depleted the government forces, which had quadrupled in size to 60,000 through heavy conscription. |
| Slaves helped Unionists evade conscription, and both groups spied and scouted for Federal troops. |
| It is at this point that even those governments who have shunned it in peacetime resort to the third method of recruitment, conscription. |
| Even though military units require no upkeep, a high level of recruitment or conscription will severely weaken the economic front. |
| And conscription was only used to recruit the militia, a reserve army never now mobilized except in wartime. |
