Disbanding the Union Army, part 2
Episode 34 As soon as the order to disband the volunteers had gone forth, the North had begun to ask itself what they were going to do with the million men about to inundate them. Disbanding the Union Army,…
Disbanding the Union Army, part 1
Episode 33 Great numbers of them had gone into the army boys and had been made men by danger and suffering. Disbanding the Union Army, part 1 by Ida Tarbell ON the first of April, 1865, a Federal army…
Disbanding the Confederate Army, part 2
Episode 32 The disbanded army faced their hard situation like the brave men they were, and joined patiently in one of the gravest tasks in the history of the world—the Reconstruction of the South. Disbanding the Confederate Army,…
Disbanding the Confederate Army, part 1
Episode 31 The worst of the ordeal of these men, who had begun to disband in this haphazard way, was not getting home, it was what they found when they got there. Disbanding the Confederate Army, part 1…