Newton Knight, a white Mississippi farmer, led armed opposition to the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War, creating “The Free State of Jones,” a county that supported the Union in the war.
Website -https://www.biography.com/historical-figure/newton-knight
There’s a lot more on him on that website
Innovations in technology radically change military budget allocation from focusing on soldiers development into budget plan that focus on development of weapons and war vehicles.
In the late nineteenth century, industrialized nations able to produce high quality weapons in large quantity due to the industrial revolution. Since those weapons able to eliminate enemies in larger numbers, all countries start to see that focusing their budget for those weapons were far more beneficial.
It’s difficult because Germany occupied their land
The Second World Was was the latest all-out conventional war the the United States fought that required a military draft and the full mobilization of the country's industrial capacity. The country has made contingency plans, produced weapons and drafted military and peace strategies.