Regulars and Volunteers
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Tossing a comrade in a blanket was a past time for soldiers

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Many state national-guard units were mustered into service as volunteer infantry regiments.

 

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Ninth United States Infantry does calisthenics at Camp Chickamauga, Georgia.

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Ninth Cavalry "buffalo soldiers" at Camp Wikoff, August, 1898.

Courtesy United States Army Military History Institute.