Confederate Mobilization? A Reader Question

Longtime TOCWOC reader Mark Kucinic recently contacted us with the following interesting observation:

I just finished reading a biography of Winfield Scott and ran across a piece of info I have never noted before. I went back through my somewhat extensive library and have taken part in a number of discussions about the origins of the Civil War, but no where have come across the fact that two days after Lincoln was inaugurated the Confederate govt called authorized an army of 100,000. This would be proposing the biggest army that had ever existed in the western hemisphere and was akin to the mobilization orders that began WWI. Why does this not get more notice?

Comments?  We’d be interested to hear what everyone thinks.


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2 responses to “Confederate Mobilization? A Reader Question”

  1. Fred Ray Avatar
    Fred Ray

    Might help if the reader could provide us with a source. Was this footnoted?

  2. Stephen Graham Avatar
    Stephen Graham

    Footnote regarding what? The actual act can be found in the O.R., Series IV, volume 1, pp. 126-7. If you want to dig further, the adoption of the bill on March 4, 1861 can be found in the Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865, vol. 1, pp. 103-105. The initial reading of the bill was on March 1, 1861, before Lincoln’s inauguration.

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