The Union drafted ~100,000 soldiers. The war was quite popular with MA progs...not so popular with the working class folks who had to suffer and die for the vision of the annointed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots … https://twitter.com/CynicalPublius/status/967838367504322560 …
"they were not progressives" so Harvard, on the vanguard of all sorts of left wing things in 1850, some how was libertarian?