Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Standing Army, the Role of National Government, and the Constitution -- 2. The Army and Muscular Nationalism: Nation-building and the Federalists -- 3. The Army and the Rise of the Jeffersonians -- 4. President Madison's Army -- 5. The Army and the New Nationalism -- 6. Mr. Jackson's Army -- 7. An Uncertain Future -- 8. Manifest Destiny and the Regular Army -- 9. New Challenges for the Old Army -- 10. Army Regulars and the Crisis of Union
11. An Elusive Peace -- 12. Continued Challenges South and West -- 13. The Army of the Gilded Age -- Epilogue: Old Army, New Empire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
