Second Regiment Missouri Home Guard, Kansas City, Missouri, 1917
Author: Missouri. Home Guard. Regiment, 2nd
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 32
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Author: Missouri. Home Guard. Regiment, 2nd
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Petra DeWitt
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2022-12-26
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0826274781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMissouri was one of many states that established a defense organization to take over the duties of the National Guard that had been federalized for military service when the United States declared war on Germany in 1917. The tasks of this volunteer Home Guard included traditional National Guard responsibilities such as providing introductory military training for draftable men, protecting crucial infrastructure from potential enemy activities, and maintaining law and order during labor activism. The Home Guard also functioned to preserve patriotism and reduce opposition to the war. Service in the Guard was a way to show loyalty to one’s country, particularly for German Americans, who were frequently under suspicion as untrustworthy. Many German Americans in Missouri enthusiastically signed up to dispel any whispers of treason, while others found themselves torn between the motherland and their new homeland. Men too old or exempt from the draft for other reasons found meaning in helping with the war effort through the Home Guard while also garnering respect from the community. For similar reasons, women attempted to join the organization as did African Americans, some of whom formed units of a “Negro Home Guard.” Informed by the dynamics of race, gender, and ethnicity, DeWitt’s consideration of this understudied but important organization examines the fluctuating definition of patriotism and the very real question of who did and who did not have the privilege of citizenship and acceptance in society.
Author: Leslie Anders
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1975-08-15
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRegimental history of the 21st Missouri which was formed in Northwestern Missouri when two home guard Missouri Volunteer units merged into a Union regiment. They began their long service by fighting guerilla soldiers. They would go on to fight at Shiloh, Corinth, Tupelo, Nashville, Mobile, and later return to Missouri to fight during Price's Raid of 1864.
Author: Perry Post Taylor
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 47
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John C Rigdon
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781099042201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Indian Home Guard were volunteer infantry regiments recruited from the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian Territory to support the Union during the American Civil War.The Third Regiment, under Col. William A. Phillips, was formed at Tahlequah and Park Hill in July 1862. Its ranks were filled with Cherokee Pins, including some former disaffected Confederate soldiers of Col. John Drew's First Cherokee Mounted Rifles. These regiments remained to defend the Cherokee Nation after the Union Indian Expedition retreated from the area in late 1862. Thereafter, the Indian units were generally attached to the District of the Frontier, although jurisdictional lines fluctuated.The regiment served primarily in Indian Territory but also ventured into Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas.
Author: Walter Barlow Stevens
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 984
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 224
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 950
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter Barlow Stevens
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 984
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth Weant
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Published: 2013
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