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To: philman_36

In the Confederacy, you could pay a fee and avoid the draft. Also in the Confederacy, if you owned 20 slaves you got to watch the Civil War from the comfort of your veranda.
If you didn’t on a slave or less than 20 of them you got to see the Civil War in places like the Hornets Nest, Malvern Hill, Cemetery Ridge, Vicksburg. A higher percentage of the Confederate Army were drafted than in the Union Army.


123 posted on 09/06/2018 6:51:38 PM PDT by Bull Snipe (")
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To: Bull Snipe

You’re being rather selective again in your history. Do you actually think that northerners didn’t buy their way out of being drafted, lol?

Surely you’re not that blinkered by partisan thinking.


124 posted on 09/06/2018 7:01:33 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Bull Snipe

Nice switch. I see what you’re doing.


127 posted on 09/06/2018 7:35:40 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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