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What was the draft in the north?

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Badly organised.

A draftee could pay a substitute to do his service for him, if he could afford to. This was obviously a bad provision. Who were these substitutes? Obviously draft-dodgers, who would immediately desert and find someone else to pay them for the same thing.

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