Confederate Enlistment Bounty Jumpers

Joshism

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Researching some Florida soldiers who enlisted after April 1862 i.e. after Confederate conscription began. They deserted later that same year. I had thought they were conscripted against their will.

With Fold3 having free Civil War record access right now I was able to check their CSRs and was surprised to see the first muster slip in their files said they were due an enlightenment bounty. That means they were not conscripted, right?

One of the men was over 35 so I can see why he would due a bounty (exempt from conscription by age), but the other was not. He was a small farmer so would not have been exempt for owning enough slaves or for his job. So how could he have qualified for an enlistment bounty at that point in the war?

Problems with Union enlistment bounty jumpers late in the war are fairly well known. Did the Confederacy ever face similar problems with people enlisting for bounty then deserting, sometimes multiple times, like the Union did?
 
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