Author: United States Military AcademyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military education
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
The Centennial of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. 1802-1902 ...
Author: United States Military AcademyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military education
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
The Centennial of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. 1802-1902 ...
Author: United States Military AcademyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military education
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Centennial of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. 1802-1902
Author: United States Military AcademyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
The Centennial of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, 1802-1902
Author: Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy
Author: Robert M. S. McDonaldPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813922980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Although Jefferson feared the potential power of a standing army, the contributors point out he also contended that "whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." They take a broad view of Jeffersonian security policy, exploring the ways in which West Point bolstered America's defenses against foreign aggression and domestic threats to the ideals of the American Revolution." "Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy should appeal to scholars and general readers interested in military history and the founding generation."--BOOK JACKET.
Hudson-Fulton Exhibition
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engraving
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
United States Military Academy, West Point, New York; Record of Proceedings of the Jubilee
Author: United States Military AcademyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The United States Military Academy and Its Foreign Contemporaries
Author: United States Military Academy. Department of Economics, Government, and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military education
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
William Harding Carter and the American Army
Author: Ronald Glenn MachoianPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806137469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
In this first full-length biography of William Harding Carter, Ronald G. Machoian explores Carter’s pivotal role in bringing the American military into a new era and transforming a legion of citizen-soldiers into the modern professional force we know today. Machoian follows Carter’s career from his boyhood in Civil War Nashville, where he volunteered to carry Union dispatches, through his involvement in bitter campaigns against Apaches in the Southwest, to his participation in the Indian Wars’ tragic final chapter at Wounded Knee in 1890. Carter’s life and work reflected his times—the Gilded Age and the Progressive era. Machoian shows Carter as an able intellectual, attuned to contemporary cultural trends and tirelessly devoted to ensuring that the U.S. Army kept abreast of them. In collaboration with Secretary of War Elihu Root, he created the U.S. Army War College and pushed through Congress the General Staff Act of 1903, which replaced the office of commanding general with a chief of staff and modernized the staff structure. Later, he championed the replacement of the state militia system with a more capable national reserve and advocated wartime conscription. Since his death in 1925, Carter’s important contributions toward modernizing the U.S. Army have been overlooked. Machoian redresses this oversight by highlighting Carter’s contributions to the U.S. military’s growth as a professional institution and the nation’s transition to the twentieth century.
Teacher of Civil War Generals
Author: Allen H. MeschPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476620385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
From West Point to Fort Donelson, General Charles Ferguson Smith was a soldier's soldier. He served at the U.S. Military Academy from 1829 to 1842 as Instructor of Tactics, Adjutant to the Superintendent and Commandant of Cadets. During his 42-year career he was a teacher, mentor and role model for many cadets who became prominent Civil War generals, and he was admired by such former students as Grant, Halleck, Longstreet and Sherman. Smith set an example for junior officers in the Mexican War, leading his light battalion to victories and earning three field promotions. He served with Albert Sidney Johnston and other future Confederate officers in the Mormon War. He mentored Grant while serving with him during the Civil War, and helped turn the tide at Fort Donelson, which led to Grant's rise to fame. He attained the rank of major general, while refusing political favors and ignoring the press. Drawing on never before published letters and journals, this long overdue biography reveals Smith as a faithful officer, excellent disciplinarian, able commander and modest gentleman.