Family or govermant

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After reading a recent article on were loyalties lie with the common

foot soldier in the civil war. I put my self in there place and asked myself. Would I

be loyal to my country or my family? After thinking of this for sometime I reached a

conclusion. I would think that my loyalty would fall at home. But I think that my

opinion might change given certain circumstances. The author gave true testimony

from the soldiers of Maine. By using things such as letters and diaries. He brought

the true feelings of the soldiers back to life. The question that peleged these men

was the draft. The thought that most of the men had was that they agreed with it.

As long as there families were not directly affected. They felt that if one person in

the family was doing there share for the war. That all of the other family members

should stay home and take care of each other. "I should advise you to stay home

and let the war and sea go to hell, for there is plaices that a man can make more

than to go to sea or war eather."(1) Through out the essay quotes of sons telling

there mothers and fathers not to let there sibling join the war effort. This is an

example of the men were there loyalty lied at home

Men in the war saw the draft as something that should force the slackers of the

to one. From an article by Andy DeRoche.

Maine Soldiers Respond To The Civil War. Pg.129

made me think of some things that I had never even occurred to me. Like would I

thirteen dollar a month salary a solider did not make enough to support him and his

was not going to end the war until the Union had succeeded in there efforts to win

vain. "Two years of fighting has not lessened my love for my Country one mite so

were taken in the prison camps of who would the prisoners vote for. Lincoln who

don't be true.... For you dear mother I would not leave the Army until the South has

who felt that family only followed government. A Young man named Perry Levi is

I enjoyed the article and think that the author did an excellent job. It

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