The Regular Army Before the Civil War 1845 - 1860

by Clayton R. Newell and U.S. Army Center of Military History

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 the existence 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 to paper over the division of the country into two camps: one that was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500983942
• ISBN13: 9781500983949
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"