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From: LARRY A WARNER <>
Subject: Fw: Re: Re: food for thought/CW Conscription
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 16:03:07 -0400


L.A.McGinnis,
You are so right in your letter to the List-Owner
Things have gotten out of hand quite a few times. Bantering
back and forth should be done between the people who
want to do so and not on the Quaker-Roots e-mail.
Larry

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From: "L.A.McGinnis" <>
To:
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 11:29:35 -0500
Subject: Re: Re: food for thought/CW Conscription
Message-ID: <002701beb103$0b275d60$>

List - Owner -
Please read these messages and stop these libelous
comments - I do not appreciate my name being libelled.
I'm more than willing to help in any way I can - have
done so and will continue to do so; but when someone mis-reads a message
then shoots off a libelous message to me condemning me for something
another
said, I feel it's time for you to step in and do something to clean up
this
query list.

>
>> <<Most of the northern men who served and were not immigrants,were
drafted.
>

I responded to this message - as has another I notice -

>
>Decided to do some quick checking. The HISTORICAL TIMES ILLUSTRATED
>ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE CIVIL WAR (1986), 160-61, 225-26:
>
>For the Union army, the first conscription act is passed on March 3,
>1863. 6% of the Union army were either conscripts (46,000) or
>substitutes (118,000). I think it is safe to assume that most of the
>substitutes were replacing men would were drafted. [Some were not--
>Lincoln hired a substitute even though he was over the age of
eligibility
>for the draft]
>
>The the Confederate army, the first conscription act is passed on April
>16, 1862 (almost a year earlier), and this source estimates that
>one-fourth to one-third of the Confederate armies east of the
Mississippi
>by 1864 and 1865 were conscripts.
>
>So, Union Army: 6%
> Confederate Army: 25-33%
>

this is somewhat factual - can be found in other sources
as
well; I agree with the one who wrote this in response to the message but
I'm
not the one who wrote this.

>>
>> < Most of the Union Arm was made up of immigrants who were
given
l400
>>dollars .
>>

this too was written by another in response to the
message -
and this 'Vern Dixon' sent off a fire-y message to me condemning me -

>
> Many of your sytatments are questionable but you will never make
me
>believe your above statement. Of course, we are all immigrants and in
that
>sense both the Union and Confederaste army was made up of immigrants
but
>the Army was not made up of recent immigrants. Hardly a family in the
U.S.A.
>was not envolved. Vern Dixon
>

#1 - I did not make the comment
#2 - I do not appreciate receiving such a condemning
statement when all I did was respond to the original message
#3 - if anyone is to be called dumb, just check the
grammar
and spelling
#4 - if this person had anything to say about my comments
to
this message, then where are the comments to my statements?
#5 - and how does a citizen in this country evolve? -
sounds
Darwinian to me.

hoping to have the list-owner return this query list to
the
place it once was; a place where decent people can converse -

anne-ology


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