"No open resistance, no organization in opposition to the federal authorities, nothing but the act of a few men who fled to escape being forced into the army &mdash and this is the history of the 'Fishing Creek Confederacy'"
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Charles R. Buckalew as quoted in The Fishing Creek Confederacy: A Story of Civil War Draft Resistance
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