"21 to 35" ; what the draft and army training mean to you /

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, June 9, 1779 : Whereas a requisition has been made to this court for a reinforcement for the Continental Army ... Resolved, that there be two thousand men raised ... by draft, lot, or voluntary inlistment ... agreeable to the schedule herewith annexed ...

Your rights and the draft /
by: Lasson, Kenneth
Published: (1980)

The Rise and continuance of the substitutes, in the Continental Army : Containing, extracts I. From the journals of Congress. II. From the committee of Congress ... III. From the Pennsylvania War-Office. IV. From a declaration of the rights of Pennsylvania. V. From the plan or frame of government. VI. From the Militia Act of Pennsylvania. &c. &c. : With the opinion of several eminent lawyers. : [Five lines from Cato] : Published for the use of all, who are yet capable of noticing, the proper discriminations, which will eternally exist between right and wrong.

Why the draft? : The case for a volunteer army /
Published: (1968)

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, August 8, 1777 : Whereas by the loss of the important fortress of Ticonderoga, a way is open to the ravages of our cruel and inveterate enemies ... Resolve, that one sixth part of the able-bodied men in the training band and alarm list, now at home ... march ... to reinforce the American army ...

War training institute to aid registered men : solves problem for many who must observe the work or fight order of government.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, June 16, 1781 : Whereas it is now absolutely necessary that the whole ... of this state's quota of the Continental Army, should be immediately compleated: it is resolved, that the several towns ... comply ... by raising the full number of men ...

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, August 15, 1777 : Whereas it appears ... that the proportion of the Continental Army, directed to be raised in this state, is far short of being compleat ... Resolved, that ... several companies in each delinquent town ... be called together ...

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, February 3, 1778 : Notwithstanding repeated orders ... to make returns of all the male inhabitants ... above the age of sixteen years; and ... all the men inlisted into the Continental Army ... Resolved that ... said committees ... make immediate returns ...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In Senate, February 26, 1781 : Whereas it is of the utmost importance that the quota of men required by a resolve of the 2d of December last, be speedily compleated ... therefore, resolved, that the assessors of every deficient town ... where the mode of classing has not been adopted, be, and they hereby are authorized and directed immediately upon the receipt hereof, to class their inhabitants ...

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, April 30th, 1777 : Whereas this court have undoubted intelligence that our enemies are determined ... to enslave the inhabitants of America ... Resolved, that in such towns ... as have not already ... inlisted a number of able-bodied men ... shall on the said 15th day of May, call their several companies together, and endeavour to compleat the same ...

The draft, 1940-1973 /
by: Flynn, George Q.
Published: (1993)

The draft and public policy ; issues in military manpower procurement, 1945-1970 /
by: Gerhardt, James M., 1930-
Published: (1971)

Jailed for peace : the history of American draft law violators, 1658-1985 /
by: Kohn, Stephen M. (Stephen Martin)
Published: (1986)

State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, February 17th, 1778 : Voted, that one suitable person be appointed in each regiment of militia in this state ... to procure and enlist ... men ... to serve as soldiers in the New-Hampshire regiments in the Continental Army ...

A plea for universal service /
by: Jackson, John Parker, 1878-
Published: (1917)

The American blind spot : the failure of the volunteer system as shown in our military history /
by: Washburn, Harold Connett, 1884-
Published: (1917)

State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, January 2d, 1778 : Resolved, that the several officers commanding regiments within this state, do forthwith see that the orders heretofore issued for raising the Continental battallions in this state, be immediately complied with ...

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, May session, 1777 : This Assembly taking into consideration a resolution of Congress, of the 14th of April last ... do vote and resolve ... that if any two men in this state inlist, and deliver to any commissioned officer of either of the two Continental battalions ... an able-bodied effective man, to serve in the same for three years ... they shall be exempted from being draughted ...

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, June session, 1780 : An act for raising, and sending into the field, six hundred and ten men, to recruit the continental battalions raised by this state, under the command of Colonel Christopher Greene, and Colonel Israel Angell.

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, August session, 1779 : It is voted and resolved, that the inlistments of the non-commissioned officers and soldiers in the Continental service, in the hands of the officers of the respective Continental regiments ... be forthwith delivered to the auditor of accounts ...

The draft and its enemies ; a documentary history /
by: O'Sullivan, John, 1939-
Published: (1974)

To raise an army : the draft comes to modern America /
by: Chambers, John Whiteclay
Published: (1987)

Exeter, July 4, 1776. In the House of Representatives, July 4, 1776 : Voted, that three hundred hand bills be immediately printed and distributed in this colony, in the following words, viz. Colony of New-Hampshire. to the selectmen and committees of safety and correspondence ... You and each of you are now called upon, in behalf of yourselves, and your distressed country, to exert every nerve in forwarding the enlisting and making up the quota of men ...

State of New-Hampshire. In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two : An act for raising and compleating this state's quota of the Continental Army.
Published: (1782)

State of Newhampshire. In the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty : An act for raising six hundred men towards compleating the battalions of this state in the Continental Army.

A constitutional history of the military draft.
by: Graham, John Remington, 1940-
Published: (1971)

The Military draft /
Published: (1981)

The case against a volunteer army /
by: Marmion, Harry A.
Published: (1971)

The first peacetime draft /
by: Clifford, J. Garry (John Garry), 1942-2014
Published: (1986)

Universal military training /
by: Fitzpatrick, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1884-1960
Published: (1945)

By the numbers : the reform of the selective service system, 1970-1972 /
by: Tarr, Curtis W., 1924-2013
Published: (1981)

IV-F; a guide to medical, psychiatric, and moral unfitness standards for military induction.
by: Suttler, David
Published: (1970)

Time to go.
Published: (1954)

At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1781 : An act, in further addition to an act, intitled, "An Act for filling up this state's quota of the Continental Army."

The wrong man in uniform ; our unfair and obsolete draft and how we can replace it /
by: Chapman, Bruce K., 1940-
Published: (1967)