The Union Army: Regulars or Volunteers.

Abstract

In 1880 Bvt MG Emory Upton stated that the excellence of the volunteer soldiers during the Civil War was not due to the fact that they were volunteers, but to the more important fact that their long term of service had made them regulars, in the highest sense, in drill, discipline, and courage. The objective of the study is to test the validity of the statement. An allied question deals with the factors which caused some volunteer regiments to reenlist while other regiments mustered-out of the service at the expiration of their three-year term. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0773482

Entities

People

  • Edouard A. Peloquin

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Civil War
  • International Conflicts
  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Volunteers
  • War

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
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