084 The Antebellum Period: The Army and Navy in the 1850s

On the eve of the American Civil War, the United States Army and
Navy continued to play the roles that they had for the first half
of the nineteenth century - the army garrisoned and patrolled the
growing frontier and the navy protected American commerce
overseas. While staying above the fractious sectional politics of
the era, the army and navy had grown and matured. Unfortunately,
that was all going to change with the coming of a civil war.
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