"Canada’s Civil War" Topic
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| Tango01 | 11 Jan 2025 4:54 p.m. PST |
"Over the course of America's bloody four-year Civil War from 1861 to 1865, around thirty thousand to fifty thousand Canadians enlisted to fight. Most signed up for the Union Army under the United States' abolitionist President Abraham Lincoln, but some took the side of the Southern Confederates, who wanted to secede from the American union and keep the institution of Black slavery. But Canada wasn't just a recruitment ground for soldiers. Many members of Canada's political and financial elite sympathized with the Confederacy, and Montreal in particular became a hotbed of Southern spies and agents seeking to launch attacks on the Northern states…"
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Frederick  | 12 Jan 2025 1:44 p.m. PST |
To put this in context about 40,000 Canadians fought in the Union Army and about 400 in the Confederate Army |
| Tango01 | 12 Jan 2025 3:59 p.m. PST |
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| 35thOVI | 12 Jan 2025 4:57 p.m. PST |
Most fought for the Union including blacks who had escaped slavery and fled to Canada before the war and freed blacks. The totals serving for both sides are estimates. |
| troopwo | 13 Jan 2025 11:28 a.m. PST |
Matter of fact, five became generals in the Union army. |
| Tango01 | 13 Jan 2025 4:53 p.m. PST |
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| huevans011 | 07 Feb 2025 1:26 p.m. PST |
Discontented farm boys or fugitives fleeing the police. It's only a 5 minute boat ride from Ontario to the recruiting sergeant in New York state. |
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snapped some photos of games he didn't get a chance to play in at Council of Five Nations.