[DiogenesLamp]

The Union Army conscripted less than 10% of its total strength during the war.

It's population was four times larger, so that 10% would be equivalent to 40% for the South, (In numbers of men) wouldn't it?

[Bull Snipe]

Your point? Draftees made up a small percentage of both armies. The myth of the Union drafting hundreds of thousands of immigrants fresh off the boat is so much BS. OBTW German immigrants outnumbered Irish immigrants by a considerable amount in the Union Army. As I said before, the war was fought mostly by men that volunteered.