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draftee. First recorded in an 1866 Civil War memoir, draftee was surely used before this during the war, probably as soon as the Confederate Conscription Act of 1862 and the Union Draft Law of 1863 were passed. In the North single men 20 to 45 and married men 20 to 35 were drafted, while the South conscripted all men 18 to 35. Most men volunteered, however; only about 2 percent of the Union Army consisting of draftees. During World War II draftee and other ee-ending words (such as train- ee, enlistee, escapee, and amputee) were widely used. Draft in the sense of “conscript” comes from the “to draw or pull” mean- ing of the verb to draft. |