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• Conscription (instituted in 1862 in South and 1863 in North)

  • 8% of Union army comprised of draftees and substitutes
  • 20% of Confederate army comprised of draftees and substitutes

• Desertions

  • 10% of Union soldiers
  • 12% of Confederate soldiers

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