Talk:United States Volunteers

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Reverting from advertising[edit]

So, somebody with probably good intentions went in and added a bunch of stuff advertising a group called the United States Volunteers.

Did some quick checks; not notable, nor is their any mention of a private non-profit with such a title in potentially relevant sections of the United States Code.

I removed it as non-notable, and frankly, if it were, it would belong in a completely separate article, as the non-profit has no connection whatsoever with the subject matter of the article.

--KRAPENHOEFFER! TALK 06:22, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

United States Volunteer Regiments[edit]

What regiments were raised for each war in which they were called up for? That information would make the article more incise.Robertshobe (talk) 14:56, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs a lot more work than that. The hundreds of volunteer regiments of the various states during the Civil War were separate and unique from the "United States Volunteers", which were organized in 1864 in six regiments of "Galvanized Yankees". The state units were mustered into federal service but retained their state designations. "U.S.V." refers only to those units actually designated "United States Volunteers".--Reedmalloy (talk) 06:48, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There were other USV units in the Civil War as well. Intothat darkness 22:13, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Can volunteer units still exist?[edit]

The article speaks of such units in the past tense, but I see nowhere that indicates whether this type of unit is no more, or when they were last used. Theodore Roosevelt was authorised to raise volunteer units for WW1 but these weren't used. Are such units still possible in the US military? The article should say. 50.142.66.91 (talk) 18:01, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"United States Volunteers" is not a thing[edit]

The United States Volunteers never existed as distinct entity apart from the United States Army. The concept to which this article refers is the expansion of the United States Army during times of war. Calling for volunteers to bolster an army's ranks in times of war is not unique to either the United States or the nineteenth century.

The distinction between and reference to a regular army and a volunteer army during the nineteenth century was the distinction between the United States Army at peace and the United States Army at war Edinyuma (talk) 11:17, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

check out this 1898 article, p. 41, second paragraph of the middle column of this Scientific American article on the US Army SloppyTots (talk) 02:47, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is not exactly accurate. Prior to World War I there were two distinct levels of volunteer troops: the State Volunteer units raised by (and officered by) individual states; and actual USV troops raised by the Federal Government. By the time of World War I the National Guard system had been firmly established, and although there were two distinct "classes" of troops raised for the conflict they were all considered Federal (or government-controlled) troops. The distinction was between volunteers (those who actually enlisted) and men conscripted for wartime service (often organized into units that were not intended to remain in service beyond wartime needs). Intothat darkness 15:19, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]