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This 5 page paper provides an overview of warfare as it existed during the Civil War and the Western Frontier. Differences between the two types of warfare are discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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& Snow, 1990). It was a war unlike other wars. Here, no compromise could be accepted and militarily, the Confederacy itself had to be crushed and forced back into
the Union fold (1990). It was as simple as that and perhaps because of the mentality that the Union just had to win, it did. That mentality might have just
been the impetus which got General Sherman through Georgia with continual victories. The mentality that everything had to be crushed, that a total destruction of other territory was the goal,
signified a change in the conduct of warfare. In fact, Shermans unprecedented March to the Sea clearly showed an important turning point in the evolution of warfare as since then,
every major war employed some of these same ideas. While that is the case, unlike the Civil War and what would happen in the East, the West was a bit
of a wild card. The Civil War was quite organized and the land had been settled by then. The colonies had already been states for some time and
the United States of America was almost a century old. It was a conventional style of warfare that the Army was used to. For example, during the Civli War ,
the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also implement a national draft, but that only constituted a small percentage of the Army (1997).
In fact, in each case, the armies were made up largely of volunteers. Still, whether one was drafted or not, the Army was a place where rigidity and planning were
paramount. That is why when the U.S. Army faced the shifting from conventional warfare to the unconventional kind on the western frontier, it had to get used to change.
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