It doesn’t have to be 10 percent I’m just giving numbers. I’m bad at that part of it so I’m giving wide ranges. I’m asking couldn’t the south have a higher percentage compared to the north to lessen the gap a good bit?
The Confederacy could and did have a higher percent of their population in the military, but they always had a smaller army. You have been advocating the Confederacy having a larger army than the Union, which would require ruinous taxes on the Confederate citizens. Based on free population, the Union had 3.8 taxpayers to each Confederate taxpayer. For armies of equal size a Union taxpayer would be charged about 26 cents for each dollar paid by a Confederate taxpayer.