[Heyworth]

Many were reluctant conscripts. many Southerners joined the Union army and many more would have if given the chance.

Apparently there were more southerners, black and white, in the Union army than there were in the confederate army.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>Apparently there were more southerners, black and white, in the Union army than there were in the confederate army.<<<

I never heard that one before. Do you have a reliable source?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Apparently there were more southerners, black and white, in the Union army than there were in the confederate army.

It's hard for some to realize that, but many also tend to forget that black southerners are just as much southern as white southerners. Regardless of numbers, it took a lot of conviction and effort for southerners to join the Union army as opposed to the many thousand of reluctant conscripts and later enthusiastic deserters forced into the reb army.