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Description: Why did these young volunteers of the First Virginia Militia join the Confederate army in 1861? “It is better to spend our all in defending our country than to be subjugated and have it taken away from us,” one explained, a sentiment that appeared often in the letters of Confederate soldiers. Soldiers on both sides believed that their cause was righteous.
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