America 's first nationwide compulsory military service law was enacted by the Confederacy in 1862.Compulsory military service, known as conscription, quickly became the most hated law in North Carolina and the rest of the South. They Went into Fight Cheering! explores the issue of conscription and describes its day-to-day operation, the people who were charged with its enforcement, the impact of conscription on civilians, and how conscription affected the course of the war. 

Author: Walter C Hilderman III, approx size  9" X 6.25", 272 pages, Pub Dec 2005, Trade Paperback, Civil War History, Non-fiction.