The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . 6. 2 By this time the problem of getting men fit for service had become a seriousone. In the North the authorities had already resorted to conscription, and everycounty of each state was required to furnish its quota, or proportion, of New York City, where there was a large foreign population controlled by un-scrupulous demagogues, serious riots occurred and more than twelve hundredrioters were killed. The Federal authorities enlisted about one hundred eightythousand negroes, and they made good soldiers. In the Sou


The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . 6. 2 By this time the problem of getting men fit for service had become a seriousone. In the North the authorities had already resorted to conscription, and everycounty of each state was required to furnish its quota, or proportion, of New York City, where there was a large foreign population controlled by un-scrupulous demagogues, serious riots occurred and more than twelve hundredrioters were killed. The Federal authorities enlisted about one hundred eightythousand negroes, and they made good soldiers. In the South the conscriptionwas also employed, and it finally included all able-bodied men between the agesof eighteen and forty-five years. Loss of troops by capture crippled the Confed-erate fighting force far more than it hurt the Federal army. The condition ofthe Southern prison camps was horrible. The Confederate authorities refused toexchange white soldiers for negroes; as a result, it became necessary to estab-lish great prison pens for captives of war on both


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