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The men joined for various reasons. Some for the cause and comrades, some were motivated by patriotism, some had war fever. Other reasons; peer and community pressure, chance for adventures, masculine identity, hatred for the enemy, romanticism, chance to be a hero, enlistment bounty in the North (money for joining).

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