![]() As the war dragged on, both the North and South would turn to women and African-Americans to support the war effort. With such efforts, the Confederacy mobilized perhaps 80 percent of its eligible male population for military service, while about half of the Northern military age population joined some branch of the service. ![]() Soldiers hanged or shot many of those who opposed the Confederacy in almost every southern state. ![]() Dissent in the South was more covert, and desperate, but met with no less deadly responses. Resistance in the North sometimes took the form of public protests, and particularly violent draft riots in New York in the summer of 1863 forced Lincoln to send troops to restore order. Resentment focused on wealthy men northerners who could afford to do so hired substitutes, while southerners who owned a large number of slaves were exempt from the draft. States were given quotas, and had to do what they could to fill them, including paying bonuses. White men represented the primary source of recruits, and men in all states resented the draft, which had been imposed in an amended fashion in the North. Michigan Civil War soldiers Drafts and Exemptions
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