Impressment

"Impressment" is not a pleasant word at any time, and the tribute that the countryman had to yield to the defense of the South was ruinous, -- the indirect tribute as well as the direct.

The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 1877

'Impressment' by David Hannay, in _Encyclopaedia Britannica_, 11th ed.,

Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822

When the Confederacy passed the Impressment Act two years ago, they cleaned us out of all our livestock and stored grain, along with practically anything of value worth selling.

The Frasers Clay Ana Leigh 2004

Annotations on judge Fosters discourse on the Legality of the Impressment of

John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961

Impressment, in which the compensation made, though it has increased much of late years, must still be considered inadequate -- for otherwise the act itself would be unnecessary; and the punishment of offenders with a view to _example_ only, in which they have no concern, and to which their individual interests are yet unhesitatingly sacrificed.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

Impressment, Gallatin's opinion of, 122; its abandonment by England insisted on by Monroe, 305; refused consideration by England, 322, 327, 335, 347.

Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens

Impressment by Britain: a cause of irritation to America, i.

Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams

Impressment was not mentioned, but it was never again resorted to by Great Britain upon

Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams

Impressment of provisions was nothing compared with the conscription of men and forcing them to fight and face the enemy, willing or unwilling, whether they were brave men or cowards.

Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903, 1903

Though the Impressment Act subsequently made vast trouble for the Government, at the time of its passage its beneficial effects were not denied.

The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South 1901