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To: Sherman Logan

Lincoln makes it a war to end slavery then conscripts the entire Army. LOL. That IS what happened...


183 posted on 08/31/2013 11:44:56 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Your point might make some sense if the CSA had not also resorted to conscription, and quite a bit sooner than the Union.


185 posted on 08/31/2013 11:51:11 AM PDT by Sherman Logan ( (optional, printed after your name on post))
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To: central_va
Lincoln makes it a war to end slavery then conscripts the entire Army. LOL. That IS what happened...

Only in your addled brain. Out of a little over 2 million men in the United States army during the war, a mere 2% were draftees, with another 6% substitutes paid for draftees. The confederate army, on the other hand, was 25% conscripts by war's end, and the rest of the army were virtual conscripts, since the confederate congress had reneged on the terms of all the one-year enlistments, changing them to three years.

187 posted on 08/31/2013 12:14:09 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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