American Military History, 1607-1914
Revised Syllabus
Courage, ideology or both? This statue commemorates the charge of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg on the second day of the battle. Ordered to counterattack to plug a breach in the Union line, the regiment began the charge with 262 men. It successfully contained the Confederate advance and helped save the Union position on Cemetery Ridge, but at a cost of 215 killed and wounded: a percentage loss of 82 percent. This is generally considered to be the highest percentage of casualties suffered by any Union regiment in a single battle during the entire Civil War.
Prof. Mark Grimsley
Autumn Quarter 2001
Office: 363 Dulles Hall
292-1855
E-mail: grimsley.1@osu.edu
The links will take you directly to the lectures. The terms associated with each lecture are on this page, directly below the link. Most terms will be found in For the Common Defense. Some will be found only in the lecture notes.
"manifest
destiny"
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Buena Vista, 1847
Winfield Scott
Mexico City Campaign, 1847
Wilmot Proviso
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
The
Army, 1848-1861
Jefferson Davis
Delafield Commission
Minié ball
Jomini
total war
Emancipation Proclamation
Confederate Conscription Act, April 1862
"Twenty Negro" Law
Josiah Gorgas
tax-in-kind
Joseph Brown
Militia Act of 1862
Union Conscription Act of 1863
"bounty men" or "bounty jumper"
Gideon Welles
Stephen B. Mallory
"Anaconda Plan"
Forts Henry and Donelson
Shiloh
rifled musket
Minie ball
percussion cap
corps d’armee
Antietam (September 17, 1862)
Austerlitz chimera
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
field fortifications
Overland Campaign (May - June 1864)
continuous operations
Lost Cause myth (the bigger battalions)
CSS Virginia (Merrimack)
USS Monitor
CSS Alabama
Army,
Reconstruction, and Final Indian Wars
Special Field Order No. 15
Freedmen's Bureau
First Reconstruction Act
Command of the Army Act
Tenure of Office Act
Ku Klux Klan
Force Acts
Wounded Knee
Toward an Organizational Society, 1877-1914
progressivism
Social Darwinism
informal empire
"Open Door" policy
"blowback"
Boxer Rebellion
Noam Chomsky
Mahatma Gandhi
Military
Reforms - 1
Emory Upton
William B. Hazen
The Military Policy of the United States (1904)
School of Application for Infantry and Cavalry
John A.
Logan
The Volunteer Soldier of America (1887)
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)
Morrill Act (1862)
National Guard Association of the United States of America
John Schofield
Endicott Board (1885)
"ABCD" Squadron
Stephen B. Luce
Naval War College
Office of Naval Intelligence
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Influence Of Seapower Upon History (1890)
Benjamin F. Tracy
Naval Act of 1890
John D. Long
Russell A. Alger
Naval War Board
Manila Bay
Hull Bill
William R. Shafter
Nelson A. Miles
"Embalmed beef" scandal
Dodge Commission
The
Philippine War
Platt amendment
Ilustrado
principale
Emilio Aguinaldo
Elwell S. Otis
Arthur MacArthur
William H. Taft
The
Root Reforms
Elihu Root
F. C. Ainsworth
Army War College
Army Act of 1901
General Staff Bill
Leonard Wood
Militia Act of 1903 (Dick Act)
Militia Act of 1908
Naval
Developments, 1890-1916
Navy Board
Joint Army-Navy Board
Navy League
War Plan ORANGE
Roosevelt Corollary
Naval Act of 1916
American
Military Policy on the Eve of the First World War (not
yet finished)
* See also From the War With Mexico to "Enduring Freedom"