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TomCADem

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5. Incorrect.

Reply to patricia92243 (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 27, 2021, 08:50 PM

Feb 2021

At the outset, the South had more volunteers than it could arm and equip, forcing the army to turn away some 200,000 volunteers initially. The draft only came later with less than a fifth of the confederate army consisting of draftees.

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