Many of the soldiers in the Confederacy were drafted. This fact needs to be pointed out before monuments honoring them are taken down.
[Many of the soldiers in the Confederacy were drafted. This fact needs to be pointed out before monuments honoring them are taken down.]
And few of them owned slaves. Less than 5 percent of Southerners were slave owners. Seventy-five percent of Southerners had no immediate economic interest in the maintenance of slavery or the plantation system.
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