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. The desertion rate in the U.S Army was 8.3% (9,200 out of 111,000) compared to 12.7% during the War of 1812 and usual peacetime rates of about 14.8% per year. Many men deserted to join another U.S unit and get a second enlistment bonus Some deserted because of the miserable conditions in camp it has been suggested that others used the army to get free transportation to California where they deserted to join the gold rush; this however is unlikely as gold was only discovered in California on January 24 1848 less than two weeks before the war concluded.[original research?] By the time word reached the eastern U.S that gold had been discovered word also reached it that the war was over, Anti-literacy Burned villages and crops murdered chiefs divided councils and civil wars migrations towns and forts choked with refugees economic disruption breaking of ancient traditions losses in battle and to disease and hunger betrayal to their enemies all made the American Revolution one of the darkest periods in American Indian history.

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