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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Category : Military art and science
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Pages : 826
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Category : Military art and science
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Pages : 826
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A Hundred Days to Richmond
Author: Jim Leeke
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253335371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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In the spring of 1864, after three bloody years of civil war and with victory seemingly within reach for the Northern armies, John Brough, Ohio's energetic wartime governor, offered his state's militia for 100 days of federal service. Ordered east for duty in forts, railways, and prisons, they freed veteran troops to make the last great push against Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy. History soon overtook the Ohioans, however. They fought at Monocacy with Lew Wallace and under the watchful eye of Abraham Lincoln at Fort Stevens. They battled Mosby and other feared Southern guerrillas in Virginia and West Virginia. They fell to John Hunt Morgan's cavalry in Kentucky. They toiled and fought against thunderous Petersburg.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253335371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In the spring of 1864, after three bloody years of civil war and with victory seemingly within reach for the Northern armies, John Brough, Ohio's energetic wartime governor, offered his state's militia for 100 days of federal service. Ordered east for duty in forts, railways, and prisons, they freed veteran troops to make the last great push against Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy. History soon overtook the Ohioans, however. They fought at Monocacy with Lew Wallace and under the watchful eye of Abraham Lincoln at Fort Stevens. They battled Mosby and other feared Southern guerrillas in Virginia and West Virginia. They fell to John Hunt Morgan's cavalry in Kentucky. They toiled and fought against thunderous Petersburg.
Report of the State Librarian
Author: Pennsylvania State Library
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
Violence in America: A 150-year study of political violence in the United States
Author: Hugh Davis Graham
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Category : Violence
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : Violence
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The American Home Guard
Author: Barry M. Stentiford
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585441815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Since colonial times Americans have used the militia to maintain local order during both war and peacetime. States have intermittently created, maintained, deployed, and disbanded countless militia organizations outside the scope of the better-known National Guard. Barry M. Stentiford tells the story of these militia units--variously called home guards, State Guard, National Guard Reserve, and State Defense Forces. Stentiford traces the evolution of the militia over the past century, demonstrating its transformation from an amalgamation of state militia units into the National Guard, a reserve of the army. Ironically, the very existence of the National Guard made the creation of other militia forces necessary during periods of war. The home guards or State Guard were organized to fill the vacuum left when the National Guard was called up, depriving states of an organized militia that could be mobilized for repelling invasions, suppressing riots, controlling strikes, or guarding the waterfront. Stentiford carefully analyzes the challenges that faced the State Guards as states sought to build their new militia with leftover men and material. He also examines the role of the State Guard: providing relief during and after natural disasters, providing military training for future draftees, and broadening participation in military units during wartime by giving a role to men who, because of their age or occupation, could not join the federal forces. The State Guard gained a new significance in the Cold War, especially as the political unpalatability of a draft and reductions in the size of the full-time military expanded the functions of the National Guard in military policy. Today modern state militias, born to an ancient tradition, must define a role for themselves in a society that increasingly views them as anachronistic. They mut also compete ideologically with so-called unorganized militias for the title of true heir to the American militia tradition.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585441815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Since colonial times Americans have used the militia to maintain local order during both war and peacetime. States have intermittently created, maintained, deployed, and disbanded countless militia organizations outside the scope of the better-known National Guard. Barry M. Stentiford tells the story of these militia units--variously called home guards, State Guard, National Guard Reserve, and State Defense Forces. Stentiford traces the evolution of the militia over the past century, demonstrating its transformation from an amalgamation of state militia units into the National Guard, a reserve of the army. Ironically, the very existence of the National Guard made the creation of other militia forces necessary during periods of war. The home guards or State Guard were organized to fill the vacuum left when the National Guard was called up, depriving states of an organized militia that could be mobilized for repelling invasions, suppressing riots, controlling strikes, or guarding the waterfront. Stentiford carefully analyzes the challenges that faced the State Guards as states sought to build their new militia with leftover men and material. He also examines the role of the State Guard: providing relief during and after natural disasters, providing military training for future draftees, and broadening participation in military units during wartime by giving a role to men who, because of their age or occupation, could not join the federal forces. The State Guard gained a new significance in the Cold War, especially as the political unpalatability of a draft and reductions in the size of the full-time military expanded the functions of the National Guard in military policy. Today modern state militias, born to an ancient tradition, must define a role for themselves in a society that increasingly views them as anachronistic. They mut also compete ideologically with so-called unorganized militias for the title of true heir to the American militia tradition.
Annual Reports of the Adjutant General, Quartermaster General, Surgeon General and Judge Advocate General, of the State of Rhode Island for the Year ...
Author: Rhode Island. Adjutant General's Office
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Sources of Information on Military Information, a Classified List of Books and Publication, November 10, 1897
Author: United States. Military Information Division. War Department
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Quarterly Review of Military Literature
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Annual Reports of the War Department
Author: United States. War Department
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Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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Catalogue of Library of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Page Nicholson ... Relating to the War of Rebellion, 1861-1866
Author: John Page Nicholson
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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