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This article needs fixing badly... appears highly partisan 1. The Draft Riots (7/13-7/16/1863) did not take place during the Battle of Gettysburg (7/1-7/3/1863) 2. By far, most of the dead were rioters and bystanders. Reference: Armies of the Streets. 3. No Union army units from the Army of the Potomac were sent to NYC to quell the riots. None, zero, nada. Several NY militia regiments temporarily sent to Pennsylvania and Maryland were returned to the city along with two regiments from Washington, DC. They arrived after most of the mayhem had settled down and were at most engaged in some light skirmishing with citizens who didn't want a Buffalo in town... it was almost immediately sent home to Buffalo. Reference: Armies of the Streets, Union and NY records of unit deployments. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.3.43.55 ( talk) 02:00, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
Maybe I'm in a minority here in thinking this, but the US Army was still the US Army during the civil war and the United States was still the United States. Pages for the Confederate military and Confederate States don't refer to them as the "Rebel Army" or "Rebels (American Civil War)", right? I think it would make more sense as well as better conform by titling the page "United States Army (American Civil War)" and note in the opening paragraph that it was commonly called the Union Army during the war. Same goes for the Union (American Civil War) page. Spartan198 ( talk) 11:33, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
While the historiography has traditionally referred to the “Union” in the American Civil War as “the northern states loyal to the United States government,” the fact is that the term “Union” always referred to all the states together, which clearly was not the situation at all. In light of this, the reader will discover that the word “Union” will be largely replaced by the more accurate “Federal Government” or “U.S. Government.” “Union forces” or “Union army” will largely be replaced by the terms “U.S. Army,” “Federals,” or “Federal Army.”
This section currently has one citation which only supports the information preceding it. (citation 9, " Eicher, pp. 37–38.")
Besides putting a "citation needed" tag on every following paragraph, is there a better option? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lontano1 ( talk • contribs) 19:23, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
There is no reference cited for the starting "active" date of the Union Army of February 28, 1861 in the infobox. The date of formation or beginning active date is not mentioned in the text of the article. I have found no support for this date in some quick research. I plan to research this a little further but I don't see how the "Union Army" could possibly have existed or been referred to any earlier than Lincoln's call for volunteers on April 15, 1861, or perhaps a little later with the formal formation of the first volunteer regiments or some general order of organization. Before that, only the United States Army, which is to say the small Regular Army, was in existence. I propose to remove this infobox item if no support for it can be found and cited because it seems to me to be unsupportable. @ GELongstreet, BusterD, Djmaschek, and Hog Farm: Thoughts? Donner60 ( talk) 09:35, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
There is a list in the article about the alleged ethnic composition of Union enlistments, some of the numbers are supported by sources, but the percentage doesn't seem to be, in particular, the claim that only 45,4% of the Union Army were American-born whites seems dubious, is there any source to support it? I think the list should be removed until good sources are provided. 2804:248:FB83:F400:D4CB:241F:B845:3FA8 ( talk) 19:24, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
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This article needs fixing badly... appears highly partisan 1. The Draft Riots (7/13-7/16/1863) did not take place during the Battle of Gettysburg (7/1-7/3/1863) 2. By far, most of the dead were rioters and bystanders. Reference: Armies of the Streets. 3. No Union army units from the Army of the Potomac were sent to NYC to quell the riots. None, zero, nada. Several NY militia regiments temporarily sent to Pennsylvania and Maryland were returned to the city along with two regiments from Washington, DC. They arrived after most of the mayhem had settled down and were at most engaged in some light skirmishing with citizens who didn't want a Buffalo in town... it was almost immediately sent home to Buffalo. Reference: Armies of the Streets, Union and NY records of unit deployments. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.3.43.55 ( talk) 02:00, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
Maybe I'm in a minority here in thinking this, but the US Army was still the US Army during the civil war and the United States was still the United States. Pages for the Confederate military and Confederate States don't refer to them as the "Rebel Army" or "Rebels (American Civil War)", right? I think it would make more sense as well as better conform by titling the page "United States Army (American Civil War)" and note in the opening paragraph that it was commonly called the Union Army during the war. Same goes for the Union (American Civil War) page. Spartan198 ( talk) 11:33, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
While the historiography has traditionally referred to the “Union” in the American Civil War as “the northern states loyal to the United States government,” the fact is that the term “Union” always referred to all the states together, which clearly was not the situation at all. In light of this, the reader will discover that the word “Union” will be largely replaced by the more accurate “Federal Government” or “U.S. Government.” “Union forces” or “Union army” will largely be replaced by the terms “U.S. Army,” “Federals,” or “Federal Army.”
This section currently has one citation which only supports the information preceding it. (citation 9, " Eicher, pp. 37–38.")
Besides putting a "citation needed" tag on every following paragraph, is there a better option? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lontano1 ( talk • contribs) 19:23, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
There is no reference cited for the starting "active" date of the Union Army of February 28, 1861 in the infobox. The date of formation or beginning active date is not mentioned in the text of the article. I have found no support for this date in some quick research. I plan to research this a little further but I don't see how the "Union Army" could possibly have existed or been referred to any earlier than Lincoln's call for volunteers on April 15, 1861, or perhaps a little later with the formal formation of the first volunteer regiments or some general order of organization. Before that, only the United States Army, which is to say the small Regular Army, was in existence. I propose to remove this infobox item if no support for it can be found and cited because it seems to me to be unsupportable. @ GELongstreet, BusterD, Djmaschek, and Hog Farm: Thoughts? Donner60 ( talk) 09:35, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
There is a list in the article about the alleged ethnic composition of Union enlistments, some of the numbers are supported by sources, but the percentage doesn't seem to be, in particular, the claim that only 45,4% of the Union Army were American-born whites seems dubious, is there any source to support it? I think the list should be removed until good sources are provided. 2804:248:FB83:F400:D4CB:241F:B845:3FA8 ( talk) 19:24, 4 August 2022 (UTC)