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In the Ranks, North and South
1. How did state rights influence recruiting efforts in both North and South?
2. Why was so much emphasis placed on constituting armies of volunteers -- even with
the passage of the Union Conscription Act?
3. What justified the system of substitutes and commutation from conscription?
4. Toward the end of Co. Aytch, Watkins
remarked "I only write of the under strata of history; in other words, the privates'
history -- as I saw things then, and remember them now." What are the strengths and weaknesses of
Watkins's perspective?
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