GDG- A Reporter's Incident

[Tom Ryan]

<<I would suspect that there were very few Yankee soldiers who were
pro-secessionists or anti-Union. After all, most came from states that
didn't secede. And the Rebels started serious drafting a year before the
Yankees did -- and did a better -- or at least, more thorough job.>>

Bob,

I should have been more precise in that statement.  What I meant was that as
many as 10% of Union soldiers did not want to be in the army either for a
number of reasons.  As I recall, the desertion rate for the Union side was
higher than for the Confederates.

Tom