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To: ought-six
Do you care to rescind that?

No.

Cite your source.

Rebel conscription laws and desertion and draft avoidance rates. There were whole sections of some rebel states where the confederate government dared not go due to deserters and draft dodgers. Maybe it was just the cause?

210 posted on 03/21/2009 6:13:48 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

“Rebel conscription laws and desertion and draft avoidance rates. There were whole sections of some rebel states where the confederate government dared not go due to deserters and draft dodgers. Maybe it was just the cause?”

Links, please. You demand them of everyone who disagrees with you, so trot out yours.


224 posted on 03/21/2009 6:29:24 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

“Maybe it was just the cause?”

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Well, which is it? If they were deserters as you say, were they right in your precious mind, oh, humble one? Or, were they mongrels for deserting?


235 posted on 03/21/2009 6:50:43 PM PDT by Birmingham Rain ("Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow." (The Secret Garden))
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