To: OttawaFreeper
Poor Irish immigrants were being conscripted to fight a war in which blacks weren’t being conscripted.
9 posted on
06/16/2020 10:30:54 AM PDT by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: kearnyirish2
Agreed and I recall reading also that there was resentment toward upper class families on the Union side who were able to proxies to people to serve in their place if conscripted.
12 posted on
06/16/2020 10:34:28 AM PDT by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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