The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1789-1878Describes the essential elements of the incidents from the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 to the Reconstruction that followed the Civil War and the ways in which federal military force was applied in each case. Includes: the Fries Rebellion, the Burr Conspiracy, Slave Rebellions, the Nullification Crisis, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Riots, the 3Buckshot War2, the Patriot War, the Dorr Rebellion, the Army as Posse Comitatus, San Francisco Vigilantes, the Utah Expedition, the Civil War, etc. Extensive bibliography. Index. Full-color and b&w photos and maps. |
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... volunteers and draftees alike . Patriotic citizens rallied to the cause and made contributions both to pay the bounty in advance of the state legislature's action and to provide for the dependents of those who agreed to serve . 10 By 28 ...
... volunteers and draftees alike . Patriotic citizens rallied to the cause and made contributions both to pay the bounty in advance of the state legislature's action and to provide for the dependents of those who agreed to serve . 10 By 28 ...
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... volunteers , some in organized and uniformed compa- nies , draftees , hired substitutes , and men attracted by the bounty . The uniformed volunteer companies tended to look down on the regular militia . The men's passions were aroused ...
... volunteers , some in organized and uniformed compa- nies , draftees , hired substitutes , and men attracted by the bounty . The uniformed volunteer companies tended to look down on the regular militia . The men's passions were aroused ...
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... volunteers and resort to a draft only if they could not fill them by this method . 20 As in Pennsylvania , the real work of recruiting , organizing , supplying , and putting the Virginia men in motion did not get under way until ...
... volunteers and resort to a draft only if they could not fill them by this method . 20 As in Pennsylvania , the real work of recruiting , organizing , supplying , and putting the Virginia men in motion did not get under way until ...
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... volunteers from the " upper country " and to use volunteer militia from the Monongahela District in present - day West Virginia to which no quota had been assigned . Lee hoped by these measures to meet the quota " with celerity " and to ...
... volunteers from the " upper country " and to use volunteer militia from the Monongahela District in present - day West Virginia to which no quota had been assigned . Lee hoped by these measures to meet the quota " with celerity " and to ...
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... volunteers , and filling in deficiencies by draft had been completed by the end of August . Some counties filled their quotas with volunteers , but most had to resort to the draft . Lee waited for the national government to designate ...
... volunteers , and filling in deficiencies by draft had been completed by the end of August . Some counties filled their quotas with volunteers , but most had to resort to the draft . Lee waited for the national government to designate ...
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Page 14 - ... it shall be lawful for the president of the United States, or such other person as he shall have empowered for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States...
Page 6 - In pursuance of this authority, the act of 1795 has provided, "that whenever the United States shall be invaded, or be in imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call forth such number of the militia of the State or States most convenient to the place of danger, or scene of action, as he may judge necessary to repel such invasion, and to issue his order for that purpose to such officer or officers of the militia...
Page 6 - That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals...
Page 8 - That whenever it may be necessary in the judgment of the President to use the military force hereby directed to be called forth, the President shall forthwith and previous thereto, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time...
Page 6 - February 28, 1795, provided, that, " in case of an insurrection in any State against the government thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the legislature of such State or of the executive, when the legislature cannot be convened, to call forth such number of the militia of any other State or States, as may be applied for, as he may judge sufficient to suppress such insurrection.
Page 7 - The marshals and their deputies shall have, in each State, the same powers, in executing the laws of the United States, as the sheriffs and their deputies in such State may have, by law, in executing the laws thereof.
Page 112 - President, therefore, by announcing his determination, was as effectual as if the militia had been assembled under his orders. And it should be equally authoritative. For certainly no court of the United States, with a knowledge of this decision, would have been justified in recognizing the opposing party as the lawful government...
Page 214 - Whenever, by reason of unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages of persons, or rebellion against the authority of the Government oC the United States, it shall become impracticable, in the judgment of the President, to enforce, by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the laws of the United States...