Themes in American Military History: 19 th Century American Military Leadership his 351 Spring 2010
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- SCHEDULE: Lsn 1 Jan 20: Introduction Lsn 2 Jan 25: Mexican War: Causes
- Lsn 3 Jan 27: Mexican War: Zachary Taylor
- Sign up for student presentations. Hand out Exam 1 study guide. Lsn 5 Feb 3: Mexican War: Scott
- Mardi Gras Feb 15-16 Lsn 8 Feb 17: Civil War Causes and Initial Strategies
- Lsn 9 Feb 22: Fort Sumter, First Manassas, and Amphibious Operations
- Lsn 11 Mar 1: Fort Donelson and Shiloh
- Lsn 13 Mar 8: Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville
- Spring Break Mar 15-19 Lsn 15 Mar 22: Vicksburg
- Lsn 16 Mar 24: Chattanooga and Chickamauga
- Lsn 18 Mar 31: Grant’s Overland Campaign
- Lsn 22 Apr 14
- Lsn 26 Apr 28
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| Themes in American Military History: 19th Century American Military Leadership
HIS 351 Spring 2010 Times MW 9:30 to 10:45 Location LAB 101 Kevin Dougherty The University of Southern Mississippi Phone: 601-266-4455 Email: kevin.dougherty@usm.edu Website: http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w416373/ Office: Rm 449 Liberal Arts Building (College of Arts and Letters) OBJECTIVE: This course explores American military leadership in the 19th Century with special emphasis on the Mexican War and the Civil War. Much of the junior officer leadership in Mexico went on to be the senior leadership in the Civil War. How these men evolved and developed as leaders will be a main focus of the course. TEXTS: Kevin Dougherty, Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience Martin Dugard, The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 John Waugh, Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers
90 to 100 A 80 to 89 B 70 to 79 C 60 to 69 D Below 60 F Exams (2 at 200 points each) (Feb 10) 400 points Writing Assignment (Apr 14) 200 points Leadership notebook 100 points Student presentations (2 at 50 points each) 100 points Quizzes (5 at 10 points each) 50 points Final Exam 150 points The exams will be a combination of terms, short answer, and essay. The writing assignment will be an 800 to 1,200-word analysis of the impact of some aspect of American military leadership in the 19th Century. Writing assignments will be due Lsn 22. Students will prepare a 20-25 minute presentation using powerpoint that leads the class through the chapters in Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience listed in the syllabus. Sign up for topics at Lsn 4. Quizzes will be objective and will test that day’s material. The final exam will be comprehensive. Also due on the final exam day is a leadership notebook that lists twenty military and political leaders we discussed in the course and contains at least three entries for each that cite a specific leadership situation, the person’s response, and your conclusions about this observation. Each entry must include a page number reference to one of the course texts. Leadership notebooks will be handwritten in ink in blue books. SCHEDULE: Lsn 1 Jan 20: Introduction Lsn 2 Jan 25: Mexican War: Causes (Dugard, 1-93) ID & SIGs: Manifest Destiny, Polk, Scott, Taylor, Texas, Wilmot Proviso, California, Tyler, Slidell, Benton, Whigs, Jomini, West Point, artillery tactics, infantry tactics, volunteers Lsn 3 Jan 27: Mexican War: Zachary Taylor (Dugard, 93-285) ID & SIGs: Taylor, Fort Brown, Resaca de la Palma, volunteers, Monterrey, Meade, flying artillery, engineers, Santa Anna, Buena Vista, Davis, Saltillo Lsn 4 Feb 1: Mexican War: California (Dugard, 93-285, continued) ID & SIGs: Keaney, Sherman, Halleck, Stockton, Fremont, blockade, Du Pont Sign up for student presentations. Hand out Exam 1 study guide. Lsn 5 Feb 3: Mexican War: Scott (Dugard, 275-310) ID & SIGs: Scott, Vera Cruz, Grant, McClellan, limited war, Trist, logistics, Lee, turning movement, Cerro Gordo, Twiggs, Pillow, Beauregard Lsn 6 Feb 8: Mexican War: Scott (Dugard, 311-379) ID & SIGs: Jackson, Longstreet, Pickett, Chapultepec, Churubusco, Pedregal, Mexico City Lsn 7 Feb 10: Exam 1 Mardi Gras Feb 15-16 Lsn 8 Feb 17: Civil War Causes and Initial Strategies ID & SIG: Anaconda Plan, border states, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Mexican War, Minie ball and rifled musket, Missouri Compromise, Nullification Crisis, offensive-defensive strategy, Scott, slavery Lsn 9 Feb 22: Fort Sumter, First Manassas, and Amphibious Operations (Waugh, 183-235) ID & SIG: Beauregard, blockade, Buchanan, Dupont, First Manassas, Fort Sumter, Hatteras Inlet, Jackson, J. Johnston, McDowell, New Bern, Port Royal Sound, Roanoke Island, steam-powered ships Lsn 10 Feb 24: Peninsula Campaign and the Shenandoah Valley (Waugh, 269-365) ID & SIG: deception, Drewry’s Bluff, interior lines, Jackson, Jackson’s foot cavalry, J. Johnston, Lee, Monitor and Merrimac, McClellan, Pinkerton, Peninsula Campaign, Seven Days, Seven Pines, Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Urbanna Plan, Williamsburg, Yorktown Lsn 11 Mar 1: Fort Donelson and Shiloh ID & SIG: Beaurgard, Foote, Forrest, Fort Donelson, Grant, Hornet’s Nest, Johnston (A. S.), Shiloh, Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, unity of effort Lsn 12 Mar 3: Second Manassas, Antietam, and the Emancipation Proclamation (Waugh, 365-392) ID & SIG: Antietam, Burnside’s Bridge, conciliation, Emancipation Proclamation, Lee, Longstreet, Lost Order, McClellan, objective, offensive, Pope, Second Manassas Lsn 13 Mar 8: Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville (Waugh, 404-455) ID & SIG: Burnside, Chancellorsville, envelopment, frontal attack, Fredericksburg, Hooker, Jackson, leadership, Lee, Stuart Lsn 14 Mar 10: Gettysburg (Waugh, 456-490) ID & SIG: Ewell, frontal attack, Gettysburg, leadership, Lee, Little Round Top, Longstreet, Meade, OCOKA, offensive, Pickett’s Charge, Stuart Spring Break Mar 15-19 Lsn 15 Mar 22: Vicksburg ID & SIGs: departmental system, Grant, Grant’s failed attempts (Dec 1862 to Apr 1863), Johnston, Pemberton, Porter, Vicksburg, Grand Gulf, Grierson’s Raid, Port Gibson, Raymond, “Running the Gauntlet,” turning movement, Champion Hill, Jackson, siege of Vicksburg Lsn 16 Mar 24: Chattanooga and Chickamauga ID & SIG: Bragg, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, “cracker line,” Longstreet, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, reinforcement by railroad, Rosecrans, Thomas, Tullahoma Campaign Lsn 17 Mar 29: Atlanta and the March to the Sea ID & SIG: Atlanta Campaign, Bentonville, Columbia, Hood, Johnston, Kennesaw Mountain, March to the Sea, McPherson, Sherman, “Sherman’s Bow Ties,” total war Lsn 18 Mar 31: Grant’s Overland Campaign (Waugh, 493-506) ID & SIG: Appomattox, City Point, Cold Harbor, Five Forks, Hanover Junction, Meade, “Mule Shoe,” Petersburg, Sheridan, Spotsylvania, Wilderness Good Friday Apr 2 Lsn 19 Apr 5: Exam 2 Lsn 20 Apr 7: Student Presentations McClellan, Grant, Kearny (Dougherty, 37-55) Lsn 21 Apr 12: Student Presentations Du Pont, Scott, Pope (Dougherty, 56-80) Lsn 22 Apr 14: Student Presentations: Meade, Davis (Federal), Hooker (Dougherty, 81-95) Lsn 23 Apr 19: Student Presentations: Sherman, Halleck, Hunt (Dougherty, 96-109) Lsn 24 Apr 21: Student Presentations: Thomas, Lee, Beauregard (Dougherty, 110-126) Lsn 25 Apr 26: Student Presentations: Davis (Confederate), Bragg, Winder (Dougherty, 126-142) Lsn 26 Apr 28: Student Presentations: Slidell, Pillow, Jackson (Dougherty, 143-157) Lsn 27 May 3: Student Presentations: Longstreet, Pickett, Pemberton (Dougherty, 158-173) Lsn 28 May 5: Student Presentations: Hill, Armistead (Dougherty, 174-186) Final Exam OFFICE HOURS: Except on rare occasions, I will be in my office on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 to 12:00 for walk-ins and would be happy to meet with you by appointment at other times. ACADEMIC HONESTY: Refer to the Student Handbook and Undergraduate Bulletin for specific guidance on academic honesty and plagiarism. Suffice it to say that any representation of another’s work as your own or other form of cheating will not be tolerated and may result in getting an F for the work involved or in the course as well as other disciplinary action to include probation, suspension, and/or expulsion. Papers will be documented using Turabian style documentation. Upon request, students will turn in a disc copy of the paper, and the instructor reserves the right to use plagiarism detection software on any product a student submits for a grade. ABSENCES: It is the student’s responsibility to make necessary arrangements with the instructor surrounding absences. Excused absences must be verified by a note from student services, the clinic, a doctor, a parent, the police, the Student Academic Enhancement Program, or some other authority. It is the student’s responsibility to provide the note, coordinate with the instructor, and make up any missed work within five days of the absence. If the student does not do this or if the absence is unexcused, the student will receive a 0 for the missed work. CLASSROOM CONDUCT: The goal is to have an environment that facilitates learning, respects both students and the instructor, and fosters an atmosphere of civility and proper decorum. Students who create disturbances by arriving late, talking, having cell phones ring, engaging in activities unrelated to the academic subject matter, interrupting, distracting other students, being rude, or any other conduct inappropriate for a learning environment will be told to leave the classroom and will receive an F for that day’s grade. 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