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Book Review

The American Home Guard: The State Militia in the Twentieth Century. By Barry M. Stentiford. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xii, 319 pp. $44.95, ISBN 1-58544-181-3.)
"You're in the Guard, aren't you?" I was often asked when someone saw me in dress uniform on a weekend. "No," I would answer, "I'm in the Army Reserve." "That's what I said, the Guard," would just as often be the reply. As confusing as is the distinction between the National Guard and the Army Reserve in the minds of many of our citizens, Barry M. Stentiford has introduced another element into the mix of folks in uniform: members of the various state militias. This confusion is certainly not Stentiford's fault, for in fact he does a fine job of explaining the differences among the various components of the state and federal reserve forces. . . .
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