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The Regular Army Before the Civil War 1845 - 1860
Contributor(s): Center of Military History United States (Author), Clayton R. Newell (Author)

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 ISBN: 1500983942     ISBN-13: 9781500983949
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $17.05  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: August 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Physical Information: 0.15" H x 7" W x 10" L (0.25 lbs) 56 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Civil War
 
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Most civil wars do not spring up overnight, and the American Civil War was no exception. The seeds of the conflict were sown in the earliest days of the republic's founding, primarily over theexistence of slavery and the slave trade. Although no conflict can begin without the conscious decisions of those engaged in the debates at that moment, in the end, there was simply no way topaper over the division of the country into two camps: one that was dominated by slavery and the other that sought first to limit its spread and then to abolish it. Our nation was indeed "half slave and half free," and that could not stand.Regardless of the factors tearing the nation asunder, the soldiers on each side of the struggle went to war for personal reasons: looking for adventure, being caught up in the passionsand emotions of their peers, believing in the Union, favoring states' rights, or even justifying the simple schoolyard dynamic of being convinced that they were "worth" three of the soldierson the other side. Nor can we overlook the factor that some went to war to prove their manhood. This has been, and continues to be, a key dynamic in understanding combat and the professionof arms. Soldiers join for many reasons but often stay in the fight because of their comrades and because they do not want to seem like cowards. Sometimes issues of national impact shrinkto nothing in the intensely personal world of cannon shell and mini ball.
 
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