Yes. Some as young as 9 have been written about. They usually would have come along with their father when he enlisted.
There are no US Civil War Veterans alive today. The War ended 150 years ago.
After the Civil War, Texas was readmitted to the Union in 1870. It hasn't been its own country since then. Technically, it could now secede from the Union if it wanted to.
So that they could continue the practice of slavery.
The Union navy had naval superiority during the Civil War.
Union. Maryland was an Union Border state but this counted Union of course.
Yes. In the Union Army, for most of the war, the pay was $12 per month. A drummer (or bugler, or fifer) was a full fledged member of his military unit, entitled to uniform, rations, pay and other benefits.
The youngest recorded soldier to be wounded in the US Civil War was a Union drummer boy named William Black. He was 12 when he was wounded by an explosing shell.
The American Flag could be considered the symbol of the Union.
That's what caused the Civil War.
He could be a seargent.
You could pay someone else to take your place.
That no-one could leave the union and there would never be slavery ever again. But mainly that no-one could leave the union.
The fact that the Union won the Civil War saved the Union.
It's clear that the Union had a large draft pool of men. Many millions of them. Combined with all the other resources it had, it's clear the Union could have won the Civil War without slaves. It was a good sign however, that thousands of former slaves joined the Union forces.
Civil Service Union was created in 1944.
Civil Service Union ended in 1988.
People's Union for Civil Liberties was created in 1976.