Yes, on both sides.
The average Confederate was poor white trash fighting for rich slave-owners.
In the North, a rich man's son could avoid the draft by paying a substitute - a system that was very bad for morale, and no good for the army anyway. Who were these substitutes? Obviously draft-dodgers waiting to be bribed into service.
It meant poor white trash fighting for the continued wealth of slave-owners
Because the Confederacy had a law that anyone owning a certain number of slaves could be sent home; therefore the men/boys who weren't rich enough to live on plantations and such had to fight in part to preserve the way of life favored by those better off. The Southern foot soldiers referred to it as "rich man's war, poor man's fight".
They said it was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight. That was because a lot of dirt-poor troops were having to fight for the profits of rich landowners who were not in uniform. Northern troops were saying the same - because of the disastrous law that allowed rich young men to pay a substitute to enlist in their place.
The war cost a lot, but was fought by poor farmers.
To preserve State's Rights, particularly as they referred to slavery
Rich men could pay a man to take their place in the draft. Therefore poor men fought in a rich man's place.
It meant poor white trash fighting for the continued wealth of slave-owners
People in the South referred to the Civil War as "The rich mans' war and the poor mans' fight" because the North [the rich men] due to the industrial revolution had more money and you tactics and weapons one might use in a major war. While the South [the poor men] were still economically based through agriculture and did not have the extra money the North had because they stayed that way and did not industrialised the South had to use more common weapons and different tactics to match up with the weapons they had to use.
Sam Watkins was correct in saying that the Civil War was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight. There were more poor farmers fighting than rich plantation owners.
because rich people pay poor people to fight in the war because they don't want to fight in the war
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Rich man's war, poor man's fight
An act for "enrolling and calling out the National Forces"
Because the Confederacy had a law that anyone owning a certain number of slaves could be sent home; therefore the men/boys who weren't rich enough to live on plantations and such had to fight in part to preserve the way of life favored by those better off. The Southern foot soldiers referred to it as "rich man's war, poor man's fight".
rich man's war and the poor man's fight is the idea...but idk
They said it was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight. That was because a lot of dirt-poor troops were having to fight for the profits of rich landowners who were not in uniform. Northern troops were saying the same - because of the disastrous law that allowed rich young men to pay a substitute to enlist in their place.
"A rich man's war, but a poor man's fight."