I thought of the ruined farms and homesteads in the South. where the barefoot boys of the South. 14. 15. and 16the only males left in their homeswent out with unbroken courage to die on the field of battle against overwhelming odds. I could have wept as I thought of that story. and yet apparently our generals wanted us to take that as a reason why we should again send out the boys of America. I thought of * the story of the Federal army of men with money who paid bounties to the hundreds of thousands of immigrant boys. two or. three hundred dollars a piece. so that those Germans or Swedes or Irish would take their places in the Army. I thought of the desertions of those men. and.the sickness. and the deaths. and then. Mr.
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Immigrant boys were paid to take the place of American boys in the army.