Talk:Child soldiers in the American Civil War

Suggest removing Food section
Is there anything in the Food section which is specific to child soldiers? It appears to be just regular stuff about what everyone had to go through, with one quote to a 15yr old (and you fail to mention the quote is by him) which is cited to a K-12 education site (would have been far better to quote the actual book that they are quoting from).

In any case, I submit Food is not noteworthy unless somehow the kids were issued different rations from the adults of something, otherwise it's not particular to this topic. MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:28, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Conscription of 17 year olds
Apparently the Confederacy conscripted 17 year olds as reservists by law. Wouldn't they have been called up towards the end of the war? https://u-s-history.com/pages/h249.html https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/conscription-6400/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.106.209.162 (talk) 20:52, 12 July 2020 (UTC)