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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Does anyone know the percentage of soldiers in the Confederate Army who came from a slave holding family?


72 posted on 12/10/2007 12:14:51 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky
Does anyone know the percentage of soldiers in the Confederate Army who came from a slave holding family?

Depending on which Southern state you were in, the percentage of slave-holding families ran as high as half of all families in Mississippi or as low as 20% of all families in Arkansas. Overall about one confederate family in three had slaves. It would be safe to assume that the confederate army mirrored confederate society as a whole.

73 posted on 12/10/2007 1:18:38 PM PST by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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