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[Wild Bill]

Without disagreeing with you Gene, the real problem was less the military experience in civil rule, but the British-American (North and South) legal tradition of a dislike of military supervision of civilians to enforce "proper" civilian behavior.

Some idiot named William L. Richter explores this in his intro to The Army in Texas during Reconstruction (Texas A&M, 1987), 3-8.

Some sources in no special order include: James E Sefton, The Army and Reconstruction (LSU, 1967); John Shy, Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution Princeton, 1965); Merill Jensen, The New Nation: History of the United States during the Confederation (Knopf, 1950); Jackson Turner Main, The Anti-Federalists” Critics of the Constitution (Quadrangel, 1964); Bernard Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Harvard, 1967); Bailyn, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (Harvard, 74); David E. Engdahl, “Soldiers, Riots and Revolutions: The Law of Military Troops in Civil Disorders,” Iowa Law Review, 57 (1971), 1-70; George M. Dennison, “Martial Law: The Development of a Theory of Emergency Powers, 1776-1861,” American Journal of Legal History, 18 (1974), 52-58;Dennison, The Dorr War: Republicanism on Trial 1831-1861 (Kentucky, 1976); Ralph A. Wooster, The People in Power: Courthouse and Statehouse in the Lower South (Tennessee, 1969).