In the battle of Fredericksberg, there were a total of 17,730 casualties.
It is false that is gave cherokees permission to attack anyone who settled on thier land. The trail of tears actually were taken from thier land hundreads of miles to a reserve on the trail of tears.
The men lacked experience in warfare
To build a huge army that would march the large standing armies of Germany and Austria, which were to the numbers of 9 million, the USA had to quickly build an army, when Wilson and the nation,could no longer play dumb to Germany unrestricted submarine warfare. as a result, congress,enacted the selective recruitment act that required all men, aged between 21-28 year to register with local drafts boards, as the war raged, the years were raised to 45 years. These men had not served in the army and were simply sent to battle after very little training.
<span>Middle East, Prersia, North Africa, and almost all of Spain hope this helped.</span>