Hi Alexander -- on Oct 14 2019 at 10:12, you wrote:

AK> In "The Great Catsby", by F.Scott Fitzerald, I read this:

                  Gatsby

AK> sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale
AK> hardware business that my father carries on to-day. ----- The end of
AK> the citation -----

AK> What is "a substitute to the Civil War"?

In that time, people with money and/or influence could send someone to the
civil war instead of serving themselves. Not particularly honourable, perhaps,
but that's how it was done!


Cheers... Dallas

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