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The ___MASK66___ of the United States or Armies of the United States is the legal name of the " land forces of the United States " ( United States Constitution , Article 2 , Section 2 , Clause 1 and United States Code , Title 10 , Subtitle B , Chapter 301 , Section 3001 ) and has been used in this context since at least 1841 , as in the title : " General Regulations for the ___MASK66___ of the United States ". The ___MASK66___ , or Armies of the United States includes : the Regular ___MASK66___ , ___MASK66___ National Guard , and the ___MASK66___ Reserve , ( as well as any volunteer or conscripted forces ). The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864 . Union Maj . Gen . William T . Sherman invaded Georgia from the vicinity of Chattanooga , Tennessee , beginning in May 1864 , opposed by the Confederate ___MASK13___ Joseph E . Johnston . A U . S . state is a constituent political entity of the ___MASK9___ . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a union with each other . Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government . Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government , Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types of court orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody ). Kansas is a U . S . state located in the Midwestern United States . Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita . Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe , which inhabited the area . The tribe ' s name ( natively "") is often said to mean " people of the wind " or " people of the south wind ", although this was probably not the term ' s original meaning . For thousands of years , what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes . Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys . Tribes in the western part of the state were semi - nomadic and hunted large herds of bison . The ___MASK9___ has seven federal uniformed services that commission officers as defined by Title 10 , and subsequently structured and organized by Title 10 , Title 14 , Title 32 and Title 42 of the United States Code . The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865 . The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America . The Union won the war , which remains the bloodiest in U . S . history . The United States Armed Forces are the federal armed forces of the United States . They consist of the ___MASK66___ , Marine Corps , Navy , Air Force , and Coast Guard . The President of the United States is the military ' s overall head , and helps form military policy with the U . S . Department of Defense ( DoD ), a federal executive department , acting as the principal organ by which military policy is carried out . From the time of its inception , the military played a decisive role in the history of the United States . A sense of national unity and identity was forged as a result of victory in the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War . Even so , the Founders were suspicious of a permanent military force . It played an important role in the American Civil War , where leading generals on both sides were picked from members of the United States military . Not until the outbreak of World War II did a large standing ___MASK66___ become officially established . The National Security Act of 1947 , adopted following World War II and during the Cold War ' s onset , created the modern U . S . military framework ; the Act merged previously Cabinet - level Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment ( renamed the Department of Defense in 1949 ), headed by the ___MASK28___ of Defense ; and created the Department of the Air Force and National Security Council . The Code of Laws of the ___MASK9___ ( variously abbreviated to Code of Laws of the United States , United States Code , U . S . Code , or U . S . C .) is the ___MASK97___ compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal statutes of the United States . It contains 52 titles , and a further three titles have been proposed . The main edition is published every six years by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives , and cumulative supplements are published annually . The ___MASK97___ version of those laws not codified in the United States Code can be found in United States Statutes at Large . Kennesaw ___MASK54___ is a high - running ridge between Marietta and Kennesaw , Georgia in the United States with a summit elevation of . It is the highest point in the core ( urban and suburban ) metro Atlanta area , and fifth after further - north exurban counties are considered . The local terrain averages roughly 1 , 000 feet ( 300 m ) AMSL . Joseph Eggleston Johnston ( February 3 , 1807  March 21 , 1891 ) was a career U . S . ___MASK66___ ___MASK29___ , serving with distinction in the Mexican - American War and Seminole Wars , and was also one of the most senior general officers in the Confederate States ___MASK66___ during the American Civil War . He was unrelated to Albert Sidney Johnston , another high - ranking Confederate general during the Civil war . The ___MASK14___ ( USA ) is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land - based military operations . It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution , Article 2 , Section 2 , Clause 1 and United States Code , Title 10 , Subtitle B , Chapter 301 , Section 3001 . As the largest and senior branch of the U . S . military , the modern U . S . Army has its roots in the Continental Army , which was formed ( 14 June 1775 ) to fight the American ___MASK76___ War ( 1775  1783 ) before the U . S . was established as a country . After the ___MASK76___ War , the Congress of the Confederation created the ___MASK14___ on 3 June 1784 , to replace the disbanded Continental Army . The ___MASK14___ considers itself descended from the Continental Army , and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775 . Secession ( derived from the Latin term " secessio ") is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity , especially a political entity ( a country ), but also any organization , union or ___MASK23___ alliance . Threats of secession can also be a strategy for achieving more limited goals . Charles Garrison Harker ( December 2 , 1837 -- June 27 , 1864 ) was a brigadier ___MASK13___ in the Union ___MASK66___ during the American Civil War . He was killed in action at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia during the Atlanta Campaign . Fort Harker in Kansas , an active garrison of the ___MASK14___ from 1866 to 1872 , was named in his honor . The American ___MASK76___ War ( 17751783 ), also referred to as the American War of Independence and the ___MASK76___ War in the United States , was an armed conflict between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies that after onset of the war declared independence as the United States of America . The Continental ___MASK66___ was formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American ___MASK76___ War by the colonies that became the United States of America . Established by a resolution of the Congress on June 14 , 1775 , it was created to coordinate the military efforts of the Thirteen Colonies in their revolt against the rule of Great Britain . The Continental ___MASK66___ was supplemented by local militias and troops that remained under control of the individual states or were otherwise independent . General George Washington was the commander - in - chief of the army throughout the war . The ___MASK66___ of Tennessee was the principal Confederate ___MASK66___ operating between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River during the American Civil War . It was formed in late 1862 and fought until the end of the war in 1865 , participating in most of the significant battles in the Western Theater . It should not be confused with the Union ___MASK66___ of the Tennessee , named after the Tennessee River . The Union ___MASK66___ was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War , 1861 to 1865 . It included the permanent regular ___MASK66___ of the United States , which was augmented by massive numbers of temporary units consisting of volunteers as well as conscripts . The Union ___MASK66___ fought and eventually defeated the Confederate ___MASK66___ during the war . At least two and a half million men served in the Union ___MASK66___ ; almost all were volunteers . About 360 , 000 Union soldiers died from all causes ; 280 , 000 were wounded and 200 , 000 deserted . The Battle of Kennesaw ___MASK54___ was fought on June 27 , 1864 , during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War . It was the most significant frontal assault launched by Union Maj . Gen . William T . Sherman against the Confederate ___MASK66___ of Tennessee under Gen . Joseph E . Johnston , ending in a tactical defeat for the Union forces . Strategically , however , the battle failed to deliver the result that the Confederacy desperately needed  namely a halt to Sherman ' s advance on Atlanta . The Congress of the Confederation , or the Confederation Congress , formally referred to as the United States in Congress Assembled , was the governing body of the ___MASK9___ that existed from March 1 , 1781 , to March 4 , 1789 . It comprised delegates appointed by the legislatures or assemblies of the several states . It was preceded by the Second Continental Congress ( 1775  1781 ) and governed under the newly adopted " Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union ", which were proposed 1776  1777 , adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1778 and finally agreed to by a unanimous vote of all thirteen states by 1781 , held up by a long dispute over the cession of western territories beyond the Appalachian Mountains to the central government led by Maryland and a coalition of smaller states without western claims . The newly reorganized Congress at the time continued to refer itself as the Continental Congress throughout its eight - year history , although modern historians separate it from the earlier bodies , which operated under slightly different rules and procedures until the later part of American ___MASK76___ War . The membership of the Second Continental Congress automatically carried over to the Congress of the Confederation when the latter was created by the ratification of the Articles of Confederation . It had the same ___MASK28___ as the Second Continental Congress , namely Charles Thomson . The Congress of the Confederation was succeeded by the Congress of the United States as provided for in the Constitution of the United States , proposed September 17 , 1787 , in Philadelphia and ratified by the states through 1787 to 1788 and even into 1789 and 1790 . The Confederate States , officially the Confederate States of America ( CSA or C . S .), commonly referred to as the Confederacy , was an unrecognized breakaway country of 11 secessionist ___MASK24___ states existing from 1861 to 1865 . It was originally formed by seven ___MASK24___ states  South Carolina , Mississippi , Florida , Alabama , Georgia , Louisiana , and Texas  in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture , particularly cotton , and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African - American slaves . A suburb is a residential area or a mixed use area , either existing as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . In most English - speaking regions , suburban areas are defined in contrast to central or inner city areas , but in Australian English and South African English , " suburb " has become largely synonymous with what is called a " neighborhood " in other countries and the term extends to inner city areas . In some areas , such as Australia , China , New Zealand , the ___MASK70___ , and a few U . S . states , new suburbs are routinely annexed by adjacent cities . In others , such as Arabia , ___MASK95___ , France , and much of the United States , many suburbs remain separate municipalities or are governed as part of a larger local government area such as a county .