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To: central_va
central_va: "So I only have anecdotal evidence to say that the converse was probably true, as many border state residents and northerners fought for the Confederacy."

No doubt that's true -- Maryland, Western Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri, to name a few, all supplied substantial troops to the Confederate Army.

How many they supplied, and what percentages went South versus North is probably debatable.
Somewhere I saw numbers for Maryland suggesting two served the Union for every one in the Confederate Army -- or more-or-less the reverse of Confederate states like Tennessee and North Carolina.

As for more sympathetic "Doughface" Northern states, like Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois -- I've never seen numbers, if there are any, on Confederate troops from those areas.

26 posted on 04/08/2012 6:35:07 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: BroJoeK
As for more sympathetic "Doughface" Northern states, like Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois -- I've never seen numbers, if there are any, on Confederate troops from those areas.

Enlistment records in the South were not bad as I understand it, it is just that all the data was stored in Richmond with no duplicates anywhere and it all went up in flames.

27 posted on 04/08/2012 6:42:51 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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