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World War II-era poster advertising a career in the Regular Army. The Regular Army of the United States succeeded the Continental Army as the country's permanent, professional land-based military force. [1] In modern times, the professional core of the United States Army continues to be called the Regular Army (often abbreviated as "RA").
The Regular Army was at first very small and after General St. Clair's defeat at the Battle of the Wabash, [28] where more than 800 soldiers were killed, the Regular Army was reorganized as the Legion of the United States, established in 1791 and renamed the United States Army in 1796.
The following is a list of the units of the United States Regular Army during the American Civil War. Infantry. 1st Infantry Regiment; 2nd Infantry Regiment;
The Army of the United States is one of the four major service components of the United States Army (the others being the Regular Army, the United States Army Reserve and the Army National Guard of the United States), [1] but it has been inactive since the suspension of the draft in 1973 and the U.S. military's transition to a volunteer force. [2]
A military service number of the Regular Army. Service numbers were used by the United States Army from 1918 until 1969. Prior to this time, the Army relied on muster rolls as a means of indexing enlisted service members while officers were usually listed on yearly rolls maintained by the United States War Department.
The bulk of the soldiers in the war of 1812 came from the militia; [24] for the Mexican War, the United States mobilized 116,000 soldiers, of whom 42,000 served in the Regular Army, 13,000 in the Militia and 61,000 in the Volunteers. [25]
This is a list of American Civil War units, consisting of those established as federally organized units as well as units raised by individual states and territories. Many states had soldiers and units fighting for both the United States and the Confederate States (Confederate States Army).
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.