Possible Clues:

• Put a ban on spirits
• Lifted one's spirits?
• Freed from other responsibilities primarily during duty days
• Former soldiers caught on wrong side driven out!
• Driven away or drowned in cut
• Worked out, lacking energy -- gaining nothing, drove off
• Drove out former soldiers caught on wrong side
• Cast out, taxed, or put inside
• Disposed of the spirits, or in the cut-out
• Sounds as if one practised doing without spirits