WI instead of the draft Lincoln tried to recruit from Europe after the Emancipation Proclamation?
Could this have happened?
Could this have happened?
WI instead of the draft Lincoln tried to recruit from Europe after the Emancipation Proclamation?
Could this have happened?
It did happen, as well as the draft. The U.S. government offered a $30 bounty for all new recruits and there were enterprising individuals who travelled to Europe and pursuaded Europeans to join up and fight to end slavery and then pocketed the bounty. Joseph Pulitzer was one of many who joined up without knowing about the bounty. Added this, there were hundreds of thousands of migrants to the U.S.A during the civil war and the bounty allowed many more to join the military after only a few days in the U.S.A. And to put the bounty into context, a private soldier was paid $7 a month.