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Georgia, Supreme Court, Atlanta : Camfield v Patterson, July 1863

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Georgia : Supreme Court, 1863.
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Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
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In 1862, 38-year-old William J Patterson had entered into a contract as guardian to Sarah J Martin, a woman who lived with her small children on a plantation. As the only white man on the plantation he took on the management of 35 slaves. Patterson was subsequently arrested by Capt Caleb Camfield of the Confederate army and held as a conscript. Patterson applied for a habeas corpus on the grounds that the circumstances of his guardianship of Mrs Martin exempted him from military service. Camfield argued that at the passing of the act on conscription under which the arrest was made Patterson lived in the town of Bainbridge as a merchant, that he changed his occupation after the act in order to secure exemption from it, and that this move was illegitimate. At the hearing Patterson was discharged from arrest and Camfield appealed. The Supreme Court reversed the judgment and declared Patterson liable for service on the grounds that he had voluntarily entered into the guardianship after his liability had become apparent.
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Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2007. Digitized from a copy held by the Georgia Archives.
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Georgia Archives
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Material sourced from the Georgia Archives
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