Originally Posted By: hikermor
"The United States has been lucky. I doubt there is anyone alive today that has seen the CONTINENTAL United States as a battle zone (1865)."

There is the Wounded Knee Massacre (1892, off the top of my head) and the Geronimo campaign, roughly the same time. Don't hostilities against Native Americans count?

US military personnel have been called on various times since - Little Rock?



Only if hostilities BY Native Americans count also.