Poplar Grove National Cemetery History
Olsen H. 1954. Poplar Grove National Cemetery History. Petersburg National Military Park
The advent of the Civil War found the people of the North wholly unprepared for war. no less unprepared were the civilian and military authorities of the Union Army. The rapid expansion of the United States Army - a mere frontier constabulary of about 16,000 men prior to 1861 - and the mobilization of a vast "citizen's" army to meet the demands of "total" war crested unprecedented problems of organization and administration. Confronted with these problems, the civilian and military authorities of the Union Army attempted to resolve them largely by accommodating them to existing organizational forms.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Olsen, Herbert
- Date of Issue
- 1954-05
- Units
- HIST , PETE
- Keywords
- Administration, Administrative, campaign, Construction, ehistory, Establishment, History, Maintenance, Military, Organization, Petersburg