Battlefield Dispatches No. 308: 'Mutinous rabble'

Friday, March 16, 2012

During the first year of the Civil War, from April of 1861 to April of 1862, there was in all of the states north and south a good bit of disorganized discontent and confusion. This was understandable, because the United States had never been in such a tumultuous internal conflict that was tearing the country apart. Therefore, many of the volunteer regiments that were organized during the first year of the war were rough, ready and undisciplined in the ways of the "regular spit and polished" U.S. Army.

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