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President Lincoln sent troops and martial law was declared and with the help of artillery the riot was eventually quelled but not before fifty buildings had been burned to the ground. Damaged property resulted in millions of dollars in losses; the estimated toll of dead and injured were in the thousands. The North was affected almost as badly as the South by wartime inflation. Prices were rising rapidly. Wages weren’t rising enough to cover the inflation and families were suffering. Men didn’t want their families to suffer more by going away to war. In addition, it was not uncommon for soldiers to be unpaid for months. Their reluctance to be drafted or support the war didn’t make them bad people, just people trying to live their lives and provide for their families. New York had been a hot bed of diverse opinions regarding the war as evidence in their newspapers and the riots. The talk of abolishment of slavery had a strong voice in New York before and during the war but many of the men espousing the views were not the men being pressed into service. By the end of the war more than 46,000 men from New York died during the war, some of these were the draftees that could not afford to buy themselves out of the draft. Just as riots in New York, Maryland and other northern cities and states showed splits in those living in the north, not every southerner was a secessionist or in favor of continuing slavery. Personal politics, economics, and deep seated values pervaded everyone’s view of the war and decided how they would support the fight. This excerpt from Sarah Morgan Dawson’s Confederate Girl’s Diary points to the issue of liberty from Union policies for her family’s decision to support the confederacy but hopes for t... ... middle of paper ... ...rmy against his family and the people of Virginia. Lee’s response to the offer and his resignation from the service of the Union was, "I shall carry with me to the grave the most grateful recollections of your kind consideration, and your name and fame will always be dear to me. Save in the defense of my native State, I never desire again to draw my sword."31 Lee’s sons had joined the Confederacy and his home in Arlington, within site of the White House would soon be taken over by Union troops. Lee would never return to his home, as it became Arlington Cemetery. Patriot or Rebel The separation between patriot and rebel isn’t always a separation, but a change in perspective or a difference in time. Some of America’s well known leaders were patriots until a change in the nation’s politics drove them to change and they accepted the label of rebel or traitor.

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