In a message dated 5/26/2006 12:04:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: for Alabama in the second. He may have had no choice since he was living there conscription was authorized by the Confederacy 16 April 1862 but I do not know who was covered by the act We, between us, know some of the history but truth to tell I never thought conscription <G> so bad of me <G> After the Year with no Summer many left New England, many left when Ohio opened up 1798. Many just had itchy feet and followed the frontier <G> so we have to dig more <G> thanks. Eliz