Federal Troops would NEVER fire on their countrymen.
Opps, Maybe they would...
Federal Troops would NEVER fire on their countrymen.
Opps, Maybe they would...
They pimped him as the “new Lincoln”.
That made my blood run cold.
Remember “The Baltimore riot”.
You don’t need to go back to the Late Unpleasantness for an example.
Use the Bonus Army.
Oh, yes they will. I don’t think a small NG unit in a small town would fire on their friends and family. So, that unit will be sent to another town.
One need not go that far back - remember Kent State where troops fired on students.
Damn Yankee bastards!
The Civil War relegated state militias (including today’s National Guard) to irrelevance; the country simply couldn’t have state militias from one region fighting state militias from another (in which one chose the mantle of “federal” troops).
Look back even farther to the War of 1812: Some New England states wouldn’t even fight.