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From the resentment of Civil War Draft Laws which provided the exemption to buy a replacement to serve in your place. The Confederates had similar exemptions that favored the wealthy. Exemptions from service have always been a problem with compulsory national service. College exemptions favor the wealthy, and were a part of the public outrage during the Vietnam War.
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Why did many soldiers call the civil war a rich mans war but a poor mans fight?
Rich men could pay a man to take their place in the draft. Therefore poor men fought in a rich man's place.
Why did poor southerns complain about a rich mans war but a poor mans fight?
It meant poor white trash fighting for the continued wealth of slave-owners
Why did people in the south refer the civil war as rich mans war and poor mans fight?
People in the South referred to the Civil War as "The rich mans' war and the poor mans' fight" because the North [the rich men] due to the industrial revolution had more money and you tactics and weapons one might use in a major war. While the South [the poor men] were still economically based through agriculture and did not have the extra money the North had because they stayed that way and did not industrialised the South had to use more common weapons and different tactics to match up with the weapons they had to use.
What does the phrase rich mans war and poor mans fight mean?
An act for "enrolling and calling out the National Forces"
Why did the military's draft lead some people to describe the war as a poor mans fight?
because rich people pay poor people to fight in the war because they don't want to fight in the war
What was the term for paying someone to fight for you during the Civil War?
rich man's war and the poor man's fight is the idea...but idk
Was no mans land patrols in world war 1 effective?
There were no patrols in no mans land...
Why did poor southern whites call the civil war a rich mans war?
Because the Confederacy had a law that anyone owning a certain number of slaves could be sent home; therefore the men/boys who weren't rich enough to live on plantations and such had to fight in part to preserve the way of life favored by those better off. The Southern foot soldiers referred to it as "rich man's war, poor man's fight".
Was sam watkins correct in saying that the civil war was a rich mans war and a poor mans fight?
It could certainly look that way. In the North, a draftee could pay a substitute to join up in his place. This obviously favoured rich families. And the arrangement was often brokered by cynical profiteers who would send all kinds of physically or mentally unfit men into the army. Profiteers would also make a fortune supplying the armies with inferior weapons, equipment and horses. These profiteers were loathed and despised by both sides.
What was between the trenches in world war 1?
No Mans Land....
What is a country that takes place in war called?
No mans Land
When were women allowed to have a mans job?
World War II
