Craig Miller
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john250":2ht4pev8 said:Did the Confederacy not allow a man to "buy out" of the war? Or was cash too scarce? Teddy Roosevelts dad paid another man to fight for the Union, and historians say that scarred T.R. Anyway, this is fascinating. Stills still recognizable after 150 yrs. Sure you haven't been doing some maintenance?
No buy outs for the common man. By the end of the war the confederacy was drafting men up to 60 years old. There is a pretty good book that offers a lot of insight into how it was to live in North alabama during the war called "Tories of the Hills". It was written I think in the fifties. The writer interviewed people that lived through it before he wrote. It's all true.