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The proper age was 18, but the enlistment of men/boys was very sloppy, so many boys managed to enlist. There were 250,000 to 420,000 boys who fought in the war. Each side banned boys from joining and fighting but, in spite of this a tall 14 or 15 year old could blend into a crowd of men and slip through in the hurry to form a unit. The standard forms of ID that we have today did not exist in the 1860's and there were no computers or phones to determine how old someone was, so the boys of the north and south slipped through and fought in the war. A good book on this is "The Boys War."
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Did men from California serve in one of the armies of the civil war?
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What war did Benjamin Harrison serve in?
civil war
How many years did Clara Burton serve in the Civil War?
She Did Not serve in the War, she was a Nurse to the soldiers DURING the war.
What did the woman serve as during the Civil War?
Nurse
Did john calhoun serve as predident before or after the civil war?
John C. Calhoun was never President. He was Vice President before the civil war, one of Andrew Jackson's terms.
What war did Helen Keller's father serve as captian?
I think it was the Civil War
Which war did Ulysses S. Grant serve as general?
The US Civil War
Who was William s hardee in the civil war?
William Joseph Hardee was one old and reliable corp in the United States civil war.
Who was the youngest person to serve in the civil war?
My Great Great Great Grandfather, who was a Confederate Solider from East Tennessee, died at age 95. He was the oldest man to serve in the Civil War. Without a name for this 95 year old soldier, it is difficult to discuss and verify. It also depends on the precise question. The oldest person to actually SERVE in the Civil War is sometimes said to be Curtis King, who was 80 years old at the time he served in 37th Iowa Infantry. Other Civil War veterans lived to much older ages, but Curtis King was 80 years old while he was serving in the war.
Where did company k serve in the civil war?
heavy artillery
What kind of jobs did men have in the civil war?
they had jobs to serve.
What did Clara barton serve during the civil war?
Nurse
