'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North (Taylor - CH) killed from a moving train

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a staunch northern abolitionist

and in some cases uniqueness of these photos help widen our perspective not only on Port Hudson and the Civil War’s impact on its people and environment but also on the history of photography

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'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North (Taylor - CH) killed from a moving trainby Paul Taylor James McPhersons classic book For Cause & Comrades explained why men fought in the Civil Warand spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question. But few have explored why men did not fight. Thats the question Paul Taylor answers in this groundbreaking Civil War history that examines the reasons why at least 60 percent of service eligible men in the North chose not to serve and why, to some extent, their