Originally Posted By: HomelessjOe
Originally Posted By: ed good
what has always puzzled me, is why did so many northern men and boys answer lincoln's call in 1861? why was preserving the federal union all that important to them at that time?


The north had almost an endless supply of soldiers getting off the boats at Ellis Island...I don't think they had any other choice.


Well, if the endless supply of soldiers got off the boat at Ellis Island for the Civil War or War Between the States (pick one) it was almost 3 decades too late and a little early for the Spanish American War of 1898. Immigration facilities didn't open at Ellis until 1892.