Submitted by BLAZENIOSZ t3_zax40a in dataisbeautiful
3Bi3 t1_iytshbh wrote
Reply to comment by Glad-Degree-4270 in [OC] Number of Union Army Units/Companies during the American Civil War. by BLAZENIOSZ
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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