I said forced, and gave examples of how men were forced to do things with their bodies against their will. From before the country was a country
During the American Revolutionary War, the states sometimes drafted men for militia duty or to fill state Continental Army units
Revolutionary American military forces drafted men throughout the conflict. At the most elementary level, state militias divided their contingent into classes of from fifteen to twenty men, then called out (drafted) one or several of a county's classes for service ranging from weeks to months.