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Today the National Guard is ready and able to send well-trained civilians into crisis situations on a moment's notice. But it was not always so.State militias provided the majority of soldiers during the War of 1812, and it almost cost the fledgling country dearly. The Americans' ingrained fear of a standing army laid the groundwork for poor coordination between state and federal control of the militias, creating a system in which the disaster...

This provocative new book vividly highlights the stresses that threatened to pull the nation apart and the bonds that ultimately held it together.