| 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. |
| Gap years, unlike conscription, are a free-will step towards adulthood and self-discipline. |
| Slaves helped Unionists evade conscription, and both groups spied and scouted for Federal troops. |
| And conscription was only used to recruit the militia, a reserve army never now mobilized except in wartime. |
| Soon El Marichal ordered that the minimum conscription age be lowered to twelve. |
