The Volunteer Army in the Civil War

The war is going to be fought by the regular army, which is quite small. And then volunteers, who were drawn from new volunteer companies or state militia companies. The men elect their own captain. So all the way up through colonel, the states determine rank in the volunteer part of the army. If your governor is a whig, guess what your colonel's going to be. You've got two choices, and one's wrong. He'sGoing to be a whig. polk appointed 13 volunteer generals during the war. Every single one of them was from his party, the democratic party. One was his law partner, gideon pillow, who was a disaster,. also a disaster