Armed Forces Journal published its first issue — under the banner Army and Navy Journal — on Aug. 29, 1863. The Civil War then was at its height, with the North winning the great battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg six weeks earlier. But the 18 bloodiest months of the war still lay ahead, and Ulysses Simpson Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman and Phillip Sheridan had yet to come east to take on Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia.

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2005/11/1164796

A stupid war in my view. The South should have been allowed to go its own way, but as is always the case you have certain groups that want to control everything---GREED---they never have enough. After the war, the federal government, and in particular the executive branch became a tool of Wall Street and today Wall Street is still calling the shots---our manufacturing jobs have gone overseas, our borders have been made porous so as to allow cheap labor through as well as terrorist elements. The Founders gave us a tool in Article V of the Constitution to deal with such a situation though. See link below:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nation...alConvention06