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Radio War Nerd EP 315 — The US Civil War, Part 7: German '48ers, with Matt Christman

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Abolish West Point

Radical forty eters saw themselves as a thin wedge to revolutionize american society from within, with the project of overthrowing slavery as the first. After the war, a village wrote a pamphlet about military reform in his vision for what america's military should look like after the war. And it was to abolish west point, abolish all the officers, a training academies and replace them with citizen militias composed of civilians.

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