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Tango01 | 15 Nov 2019 9:38 p.m. PST |
"With the second anniversary of the war looming, the initial enthusiasm of enlistees was in decline. As the death rate rose, the Union needed to find a new way to recruit soldiers. On March 3, 1863, the Union officially signed the Enrollment Act. All Union men between the ages of 20 and 45, as well as all immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship, were required to sign up to fight. Each recruiting district had quotas to meet, and those districts where numbers fell short would draft soldiers by lottery. When names were selected from the lottery, men had three options: fight; find someone to take their place; or pay a $300 USD commutation fee to escape that round of drafting. Of the more than 750,000 drafted in 1863 and 1864, only about 46,000 actually saw battle. The remaining 85% avoided the war by literally running away, finding someone else to take their place or paying the commutation fee…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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