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3Bi3 t1_iyp6xcz wrote

I am pretty sure Ohio had the most companies... that saw action anyway. Lotta Generals, and Presidents have called Ohio home.

The NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets are an homage to this I think.

New York had draft riots... I'd like to see your source.

Also, New Mexico Territory, was the sight of the Battle of Glorietta Pass. Colorado Union soldiers send a whole bunch of Texas shitheels walking back to Texas. Your numbers are... flawed.

What is the size of a Company? Cav Companies are diff than Infantry... and Artillery is organized into Batteries. Since the answer varies, your data doesn't really hold water. No offense.

Also, the five civilized tribes inhabiting current day Oklahoma were slave owners... and fought for the Confederacy.

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Glad-Degree-4270 t1_iysi9st wrote

NYC had draft riots, but you don’t understand how big of a population center it was at the time. NYS was a breadbasket state and industrial powerhouse, and the main port of entry. All those immigrants getting recruited off the boat for guaranteed income would’ve gone into NY units. So not only is one of (if not the largest) states by population Recruiting from within but also responsible for grabbing up new American immigrants as well.

And the draft riots were the exception, not the norm. Basically every town in the state has a canon from the war at its memorial with lists of all the men that never came back, and the canon is rightly pointed south.

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3Bi3 t1_iytshbh wrote

Ok, so do we count one New Yorker, and the Irishman he paid? (the War Department, collected fees to send a sub in your place)

The numbers add up if you count every New Yorker who paid their way out of the draft, AND the idiot fresh off the potato boat, that actually fought on the battlefields.

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