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By 1863, the Union had a difficult time recruiting soldiers to fight in the Civil War,
so they raised the enlistment bounty from $100 to $300.
Congress passed a conscription (draft) law which required all 20- 45 year old men
to put their names in a lottery and serve if their names were drawn.
A wealthy person could get out of the draft, if called, by paying the government or
paying someone to take his place. (remember MN notes)
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The Confederacy
also imposed a
draft law, but they
exempted people
who owned more
than 20 slaves.
This caused
resentment among
smaller farmers.
The
Union
Paying for the War
In 1861, the Union issued the first income tax- a tax on
earnings- which raised about 55 million in revenue. 62% of
the Union’s war effort was financed by war bonds. But they
were unable to raise the needed amount of money, so they
printed $400 million in paper money known as
“greenbacks”
This caused inflation. But the economy in the North did
not collapse due to wartime demands for products.
The
Confederacy
Paying for the War
The South also printed massive amounts of paper money.
But it did not have the same results as the north. Inflation
became a problem-an increase in price and a decrease in
the value of money.
The average family food bill in the South increased from
$6.65 a month in 1861 to $68 by mid-1863. Over the course
of the war, prices rose 9,000 percent in the South.
Troops often had to scour the battlefield
after victories to find unused
ammunition. Even when they had
needed supplies, getting them to the
troops was difficult. Unlike the North,
they did not have a complex system of
railroads.
Portrait of Pvt. George A.
Stryker, New York Regiment,
U.S.A.
Portrait of Pvt. Edwin Francis
Jemison, 2nd Louisiana
Regiment, C.S.A.
The average age of a
soldier during the
Civil War was under
21.
Union soldiers were
called “Yankees”,
“Yanks”, or “Billy
Yanks” by their
Confederate enemies.
Confederate soldiers
were called “Rebels”,
Rebs” or “Johnny
Rebs” by Union
soldiers.
Prison conditions were awful in both Confederate and Union
prisoner of war camps. The most infamous POW camp of the Civil
War was Andersonville in Georgia.
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One in every three
Union Soldiers died of
starvation or disease
at Andersonville.
By the end of the war,
approximately 30,000
Union prisoners had
died in Confederate
camps and 25,000
Confederates had died
in Union prisons.
Survivor of the Andersonville
Prisoner of War Camp