"Conscribe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... learn an order has been issued to conscribe all commissary and quartermasters' clerks liable to military service. There will be, and ought to be, some special cases of exemption, where men have lost everything in the war and have women and children depending on their salaries for subsistence; but if this order be extended to the ordnance ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones |
