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Every war the U.S. has fought since gaining independence has altered the American national identity for better or worse – but perhaps none so much as the Civil War. With free, federalist states in the North pitted against anti-federalist, slave states in the South, the Civil War’s outcome preserved the political unity of the United […]
Every war the U.S. has fought since gaining independence has altered the American national identity for better or worse – but perhaps none so much as the Civil War. With free, federalist states in the North pitted against anti-federalist, slave states in the South, the Civil War’s outcome preserved the political unity of the United […]
Every war the U.S. has fought since gaining independence has altered the American national identity for better or worse – but perhaps none so much as the Civil War. With free, federalist states in the North pitted against anti-federalist, slave states in the South, the Civil War’s outcome preserved the political unity of the United […]
American military reliance on cavalry peaked during the Civil War. There were more than 1 million cavalry troops between Union and Confederate forces, accounting for nearly one-in-every-five enlisted soldiers. And over the course of the war, the military role of cavalry units evolved considerably. In today’s modern military, the duties of horse-mounted cavalry units are […]
Over the four years of the American Civil War – from 1861 to 1865 – the majority of military casualties were suffered by Union forces. To maintain the integrity of the Union, federalist states and territories in the Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast mobilized close to 2.7 million troops. Of those, 360,222 of whom would […]