How would you approach the question: To what extent did the Civil War involve every American citizen?

The best way
to answer this question is to start thinking about what it means for a war to involve
someone.  For example, we now have troops fighting to some degree in Afghanistan and had troops
involved until a few years ago in fighting in Iraq.  Were you involved in that war?  Why or
why not?  Now let us think about this with respect to the Civil War.

The most
obvious way for someone to be involved in a war is to be in the military.  It is said that 3
million men were in the military on both sides in this war.  This was about 10% of the
population.  So we know that at least 10% were actively involved in the war.

Then there were people who worked in support services.  These were people like...