8. Confederate States established their own draft laws
In the early days of the Confederacy the congress called for the states to provide troops for the forming armies, with quotas established for each state. The governors of the states created quotas of their own by region or county, and authorized commanders to conscript men in the areas of their authority in order to obtained the desired number of men. Initially enlistments surged, but by the time of news of Confederate defeats and the high number of casualties reached the Deep South they had already subsided. Conscription became the main method of obtaining troops in the eyes of the government, and an evil to be resisted as strongly as the hated Yankees for most of the South.
Men were induced by the states to volunteer for 90 days of service in the state units, which once assigned under the command of the Confederate Army were subject to its enlistment regulations, which made all enlistments for a period of three years, or the end of the war, whichever came first. All enlistments were later extended through the end of the war. Thus a man who volunteered to serve for ninety days in April of 1861 could find himself still in uniform, or rather the tatters of one, in April 1865, should he have been fortunate enough to survive. Many who entered the army voluntarily prior to April 1862 found themselves conscripted rather than discharged at the end of their agreed upon terms of service.