Confederate States of America. Bureau of Conscription

The Confederate States of America Bureau of Conscription, 7th North Carolina Congressional District included Anson, Chatham, Davidson, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, and Stanly counties, and was responsible to the state conscript office at Raleigh, N.C. District offices were concerned with enrollment, exemptions, substitutes, work details, partially disabled soldiers on limited service, senior reserves, deserters and other absentees from active units, and manpower problems. The district enrolling officer was John M. Little, with headquarters at Wadesboro, N.C., until February 1864 when he was succeeded by D. C. Pearson who had headquarters at Lexington, N.C. The commandant of conscripts for North Carolina was Colonel Peter Mallett, who was succeeded in the Raleigh office in October 1864 by Lieutenant General T. H. Holmes. The state conscript officer was responsible to the Bureau of Conscription of the Confederate War Department at Richmond, Va., under John S. Preston.

From the guide to the Confederate States of America Bureau of Conscription, 7th North Carolina Congressional District Records, ., 1862-1865, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

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