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Lincoln's Mercenaries - Economic Motivation among Union Soldiers during the Civil War (Hardcover)
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Lincoln's Mercenaries - Economic Motivation among Union Soldiers during the Civil War (Hardcover)
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
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In Lincoln's Mercenaries, renowned Civil War historian William
Marvel considers whether poor northern men bore the highest burden
of military service during the American Civil War. Examining data
on median family wealth from the 1860 United States Census, Marvel
reveals the economic conditions of the earliest volunteers from
each northern state during the seven major recruitment and
conscription periods of the war. The results consistently support
the conclusion that the majority of these soldiers came from the
poorer half of their respective states' population, especially
during the first year of fighting. Marvel further suggests that the
largely forgotten economic depression of 1860 and 1861 contributed
in part to the disproportionate participation in the war of men
from chronically impoverished occupations. During this fiscal
downturn, thousands lost their jobs, leaving them susceptible to
the modest emoluments of military pay and community support for
soldiers' families. From newspaper accounts and individual
contemporary testimony, he concludes that these early recruits,
whom historians have generally regarded as the most patriotic of
Lincoln's soldiers, were motivated just as much by money as those
who enlisted later for exorbitant bounties, and that those generous
bounties were made necessary partly because war production and
labor shortages improved economic conditions on the home front. A
fascinating, comprehensive study, Lincoln's Mercenaries illustrates
how an array of social and economic factors drove poor northern men
to rely on military wages to support themselves and their families
during the war.
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