Legal Opinion
Cook v. Fernandez
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided July 1, 1865PublishedCited by 3 opinions
This case ivas decided at Tallahassee. A statement of the case is contained in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtWALKEIi, J.
On the 17th February, 1864, the Congress of the Confederate States passed “ an act to organize forces to serve during the war,” the first section of which reads as follows, to wit: “ Thai from and after the passage of this act, all white men, residents oí the Confederate States, between the ages of seventeen and fifty, shall be in the military service of the Confederate States for the war.”
*101On the 19 tk day of November, 1864, the plaintiff in error, who had been enrolled and put into the Confederate service under said act, made application to the Judge of the Su-wannee Circuit to be discharged…
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