[RegulatorCountry]

The north was so noble that 300 bucks could buy you out of the war and Irish guys escaping famine were sent from the ships to the battlefield to fight a war they knew nothing about.

I have old letters written by Confederate soldier ancestors and they comment upon this. They honestly thought they were fighting Hessians again, just as their grandfathers and great grandfathers had in the Revolution. They pitied them, being marched right into the line of fire. Cannon fodder.

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Terrible thing.

And you have letters that old? That’s like the stuff of museums!

Wow.

The oldest thing I have is a picture of my great grandfather, grandfather and pop when he was 18. Pop came from Italy as a kid, but it’s still only a 1938 picture.

Not the civil war!! Wow.