“Forced to serve under Robert E. Lee”? IIRC, it was the Yankees who had a draft and draft riots.
“IIRC, it was the Yankees who had a draft and draft riots”
The Home Guard in the South routinely press ganged Southerners into the State militias towards the end of the war. At the beginning, they had no problem getting volunteers.
They lost confidence because they started taking young men during the harvests, causing farms to fail.
“Forced to serve under Robert E. Lee”? IIRC, it was the Yankees who had a draft and draft riots.
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I could easily be wrong, but I thought I had read somewhere that there was conscription in the Confederacy during the War of Northern Aggression. No?