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The "Army on the Frontier" is a term applied to the activities of the United States Army stationed near the frontier settlements from the beginning of national existence until about 1890, the end of the settlers' frontier. The principal functions performed by the U.S. Army were:
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The latter assembled a force of ten companies and garrisoned them in the abandoned US Army forts, [28] [29] establishing a line 400 miles (640 km) long. After a relative calm on the frontier from 1861, [28] Confederate forces were unable to defend the Texas frontier and throughout the American Civil War white settlement receded to the east. [23]
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The National Army was formed from the old core of the regular United States Army, augmented by units of the United States National Guard and a large draft of able-bodied men. [36] Moral standards, and the morale of the troops, was the concern of the Commission on Training Camp Activities .
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Laurence Simmons Baker (May 15, 1830 – April 10, 1907) was an officer in the United States Army on the frontier, then later a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His first name was spelled Lawrence in the records of the Confederate War Department [1] and the mistaken spelling has persisted.
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