[Colonel Kangaroo]

For the Yankees, it was a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.

As if it wasn't in the Confederacy with the exemptions for slave owners. The saddest thing about it was the slave owners couldn't quit making money long enough to use their slave labor to help feed the poor fatherless families of the suckers doing their fighting for them.

[smoothsailing]

“A law was made by the Confederate States Congress about this time allowing every person who owned twenty negroes to go home. It gave us the blues; we wanted twenty negroes. Negro property suddenly became very valuable, and there was raised the howl of ‘rich man’s war, poor man’s fight.’ The glory of the war, the glory of the South, the glory and pride of our volunteers had no charms for the conscript.”

http://www.etymonline.com/cw/conscript.htm