Hard times -- Ninety-day war: Lincoln's militia call -- Arm'd year: three-year volunteers, 1861 -- Families fighting a hard war -- Raising a bounty army: volunteers and drafted militia, 1862 -- Bounty men go to war -- Soldiers of misfortune, 1862-1863 -- The rising price of patriotism, 1863-1865 -- The needy hero.
Summary:
"Lincoln's Mercenaries considers the question of whether the burden of military service in the Union army was borne mainly by the poor during the American Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Conflicting worlds: new dimensions of the American Civil War
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