So, That's Civil War Confederate Impressment

From the Encyclopedia Virginia, Impressment During the Civil War, Confederate.

I have to admit that before today, I'd never heard the term impressment used for an event during the Civil War/  Some more research was needed.Of course, I knew about British impressment of American seamen as a cause of the War of 1812, so figured impressment had something to do with forcibly taking something without permission.

"Impressment was the informal and then, beginning in March 1863, the legislated policy of the Confederate government to seize food, fuel, slaves, and other commodities to support the armies in the field during the American Civil War (1861-1865).

"The tax-in-kind law, passed a month later, allowed the government to impress crops from farmers at a negotiated price.

Combined with inflationary prices and plummeting morale following military defeats, impressment sparked vocal protest across the South.  Discontent was exacerbated by what was perceived as the government's haphazard enforcement of the law, its setting of below-market prices, and its abuse of labor."

--Old Secesh