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The US from the start kept an Officer Corp. Traditionally Senators could get their patrons in there, at west point.
The rest was militias and state armouries. The Union soldiers I think were recruited through the states not the federal government itself.
They did commission armies or navies for a purpose, but would disband them after, like our first engagement to pursue the barbary pirates based around Tunisia that were harrassing our shipping, not long after the revolution.
I don’t think it was until WWI that we had a standing army. Or a permanent income tax, (they started one in the civil war then ended it after the war.)
The US from the start kept an Officer Corp. Traditionally Senators could get their patrons in there, at west point.
The rest was militias and state armouries. The Union soldiers I think were recruited through the states not the federal government itself.
They did commission armies or navies for a purpose, but would disband them after, like our first engagement to pursue the barbary pirates based around Tunisia that were harrassing our shipping, not long after the revolution.
I don’t think it was until WWI that we had a standing army. Or a permanent income tax, (they started one in the civil war then ended it after the war.)