[ought-six]

Cite your sources for the 6% of all federal troops being draftees (which means that 94% were volunteers).

[Grand Old Partisan]

Very presumptuous of you to issue me an order.

[Non-Sequitur]

Here is a link to a site that mentions that only 6% of the quarter-million men drafted actually served. "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" puts the number of white Union soldiers at about 2.5 million (with another 200,000 black troops) so the 15,000 to 20,000 Union draftees made up less that 1% of all Union soldiers.

It is a little known piece of trivia that while Abraham Lincoln was not eligible for conscription, due to age and position as Commander-in-Chief, he still paid a substitute to serve in the army in his place. The soldier, a gentleman named John Summerfield Staples from Stroudsburg, PA, became the President's "representative recruit". He was enlisted in the 176th Pennsylvania Volunteers, survived the war, and is buried in Stroudsburg Cemetery, under a regulation GI headstone.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Cite your sources for the 6% of all federal troops being draftees (which means that 94% were volunteers).

The draft provided only @ 50,000 men. Over a million served.

Walt

[WhiskeyPapa]

Cite your sources for the 6% of all federal troops being draftees (which means that 94% were volunteers).

"Battle Cry of Freedom" gives the figure as 7%.

"Of the 207,000 men who were drafted, 87,000 paid the commutation fee of $300, which exempted him from this draft but not necessarily the next one....87,000 paid the commutation fee, and 74,000 furnished substitutes, leaving only about 46,000 who actually went into the army."

- BCF, 601

Walt