Chronology -- The spirit of New Orleans : regulars vs. volunteers, 1815-1845 -- Providing for the common defense : the government, the people, and the American military -- Egalitarianism vs. aristocracy : officers and civilians -- Binding the republic together : the Army, internal improvements, and Jacksonian nationalism -- Blue, red, and white : the Army, the Indian, and the common man -- Frontiersmen in blue : the Army and American society, 1815-1845 -- Documents. President James Monroe's views on national defense, December 1817, first inaugural address -- Secretary of War John C. Calhoun's report on the reduction of the Army, 12 December 1820 -- "Section 1 - Rank and command, article 2 - Base of discipline" from Systems of martial law, and field service, and police, 26 December 1820 -- Circular letter of the Secretary of War, of 11th July 1826, on the subject of the militia -- Captain John Stuart to Secretary of War Lewis Cass, May 1833 -- A citizen's view on Indians, the militia, and the U.S. Army -- Remarks of Mr. David W. Dickinson (of Tennessee) in opposition to the military academy, delivered in the House of Representatives, on Saturday, 14th June 1834 -- Excerpt from General order no. 69, 13 October 1836 -- "The Army and the people" / by "Sam Jones," Army and Navy chronicle, 24 October 1839.
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