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Re: What is a galvanized soldier?

What about the ones who signed on for frontier service to fight Indians in the territories, the ones whom Dee Brown wrote about in his book,"Galvanized Yankees"? Are they traitors or just survivors? These men came from the hellhole Yankee prisons like Camp Douglas and Rock Island to name a couple.
What would each of us have done if in their place in late 1864, with knowledge the Confederacy was maybe doomed anyway? Wait there to die or go west and get our freedom for one year's service? It would have been a tough decision no doubt, and if we put ourselves in their shoes we might consider them survivors instead of traitors.

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