Jackson's sword : the Army officer corps on the American frontier, 1810-1821 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Watson, Samuel J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2012]
Series:	Modern war studies.
Subjects:	United States. > Army > Officers > History > 19th century. Southern States > History, Military > 19th century. United States > Territorial expansion > History > 19th century. Civil-military relations > United States > History > 19th century. Jackson, Andrew, > 1767-1845 > Military leadership.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the soldier and the nineteenth-century American state : insulation, autonomy, and agency
Confidence, belligerence, and insubordination : Army operations along the Texan and maritime frontiers of Louisiana, 1810-1814
The Army asserts American hegemony on the Florida frontier : from the Creek War to the destruction of the Negro Fort, 1813-1816
The tensions of aggression and accountability : military expansionism in the Gulf borderlands, 1815-1817
Concluding the quasi-war with Spain : civil-military tensions, the occupation of Amelia Island, and the "First Seminole War," 1817-1818
Jackson and Gaines get their way : civil-military friction over the invasion of Florida, Indian relations, and filibustering against Texas, 1817-1821
Assessing national military expansion on the western frontier to 1825 : political and diplomatic ebb and flow in Army operations on the Plains
The growth of professional accountability during the 1820s and 1830s : contexts, policies, and causation-domestic and international
Conclusion : the soldier and the Jacksonian state: the Military Academy, Army missions, and political acceptance in an age of democratization.