re: Name a little known fact about the Civil War

Both armies were all volunteer in the first year of the war. Southern armies during the first year of the war were about equal in numbers to the Yankee armies. Yet the North had a population of almost 21 million compared to the Southern population of 9 million with 5.5 million free and 3.5 million slaves.

Roughly equal armies but the North had an almost 4-1 military population to draw from. And oh by the way, over 2/3 of free Southern population did NOT own slaves.