. The volunteer soldier of America . ! The treatyof Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed upon February 2, 1848,and in a few months over thirteen years from the date ofthat event the United States entered upon the mostterrific struggle of modern history — a struggle whichinvolved the question of the continued life or the speedydeath of the Nation. Without other preparation thanthat derived from the handful of regular troops constitut-ing the army of the United States, and from the militiaorganizations developed by and maintained under thegeneral laws of the various States, the country was calledto a wa
. The volunteer soldier of America . ! The treatyof Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed upon February 2, 1848,and in a few months over thirteen years from the date ofthat event the United States entered upon the mostterrific struggle of modern history — a struggle whichinvolved the question of the continued life or the speedydeath of the Nation. Without other preparation thanthat derived from the handful of regular troops constitut-ing the army of the United States, and from the militiaorganizations developed by and maintained under thegeneral laws of the various States, the country was calledto a war in which not thousands, as before, but mill-ions of men were to become the actors. Our brothers ofthe South had again beaten the long-roll, and summonedthe loyalists of the North to a conflict of huge propor-tions, and destined to be attended with the most mightyresults. The American volunteer, after his short sleep,was again hurried to the field of battle, this time, how-ever, to find himself arrayed, not against a foreign foe,. REBELLION AGAIN CALLS THE VOLUNTEER. 48 I but face to face, bayonet to bayonet, with his brother, bywhose side he had fought the haughty Briton, and by theaid of whose vaHant arm the stars and stripes had floatedin triumph over the capital of Mexico. CHAPTER XVII. THE GREAT VOLUNTEERS OF THE REVOLUTION GENERAL WASHINGTON GEN. NATHANIEL GREENE AND HIS ARMY OF UNTRAINED VOLUNTEERS COMPARISON OF GREENEs UNFORESHADOWING YOUTH WITH THAT OF NAPOLEON THE GREAT WASHINGTONS YOUTH A GLANCE AT THE FORESHADOWINGS OF GEN. GRANT BURGOYNE AND THE VOLUNTEERS WHO OPPOSED HIM JOHN STARK AND HIS GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS ALEXANDER HAMILTON, HENRY KNOX, MAD ANTHONY WAYNE, ISRAEL PUTNAM, ETHANALLEN, FRANCIS MARION, THOMAS SUMTER, NATHANHALE, AND OTHER GREAT VOLUNTEERS THE PROFES-SIONAL SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION GEN. CHARLES LEE AND HIS INGLORIOUS CAREER UNDER WASHINGTON THE CASE OF GEN. CONWAY NAPOLEONISM THE BIRTH OF PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERY. THE brief recapitulation of, and
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