In a message dated 12/30/2003 9:27:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, eharding2@cox.net writes: It's amazing how the Union Army paid white soldiers more than minority soldiers, but the Confederate Army paid each soldier the same pay which was determined by rank, and not if they were White, Black, Indian, Jewish, etc. Kind of interesting I think. YES IT IS. VERY INTERESTING.

I found this item in the Civil War times Dec 2003 issue page 52 also it was written by Eric Ethier and not Micheal J McAfee and the statememt on the Black soldiers it should read approximately 179,000 black soldiers wore Blue Sorry for my typo errors Ann O From: <Edmcrebel@aol.com> To: <CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:28 PM Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] The Common Soldier page 2 > In a message dated 12/30/2003 9:27:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, > eharding2@cox.net writes: > It's amazing how the Union Army paid white soldiers more than minority > soldiers, but the Confederate Army paid each soldier the same pay which was > determined by rank, and not if they were White, Black, Indian, Jewish, etc. Kind of > interesting I think. > YES IT IS. VERY INTERESTING. > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from list mode, email CIVIL-WAR-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > and in the text area of the message, type only the word > unsubscribe > >