 The Confederate Congress gave control over military operations, and authority for mustering state forces and volunteers to the President of the Confederate States of America on February 28, 1861 and March 6, 1861.By May 8, a provision authorizing enlistments for war was enacted, calling for 400,000 volunteers to serve for one or three years.By April 1862, the Confederate States of America found it necessary to pass a conscription act, which drafted men into PACS.