![]() 1, 3 Regardless of their age, responding to the recruitment pleas sounded so intuitive, so natural when many of their family, friends, and teachers were answering the appeal to fight in the north/south conflict they were calling the Civil War, the War of the Rebellion, or the War Between The States (1861–1865). ![]() ![]() 2, 3 Others lied about their age, falsified their names, ran away from home, then showed up at an encampment to make themselves useful, and slowly became integrated into the unit activities. 1, 2 These eager boys worked diligently to convince the army recruiters they were tall and strong enough, certainly filled with enough brawn, stamina, and courage to be regular soldiers. With the lackadaisical recruitment procedures and sloppy paperwork in order to quickly meet troop quotas, nearly 250,000 – 420,000 of those signed up for both sides of the Civil War were under 18.
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