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Re: An American Army vs a Foreign Army?

I know what your saying, but this is not an 19th century report. I'm being picky.

Also, there seems to be some big flaws.

90,000 Dutch? On the 1870s census for the U.S., there were only about 38,000 total persons that claimed they were born in Holland. The War sure must have taken a toll on them or the bulk took their mercenary pay and went home.

Must have been the same for the Poles, the 1870 census only claims less than 6,000 polish born persons, yet he claims there were 5,000 in the Union Army.

He uses the claim that ethnically even if your born in the United States, persons kept their Ethnic identity, yet the Confederate Army was not as deverse as the North, with 91% being native born. Doesn't same rule apply to Southerners? Irish, Scots, Welsh, French, Spanish, English, German (which is a large part of my hertitage), peoples born in the South? This tally is flawed and biased.

David

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