Director, Public
History Program
Assistant Professor of History, McMurry
University
McM Station Box 638
Abilene, TX 79697-0638
915-793-3864
FAX 915-793-3866
"The Girl I Left Behind Me: United States Army Laundresses and the Mexican War," Army History, 46 (Spring 1999): 1-10.
Donald S. Frazier, ed. The United States and Mexico at War.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1998.
Contributed the following articles:
"Corpus Christi"
"Jacob Brown"
"Fort Texas, Siege of"
"Fort Texas"
"Recruitment: U.S. Recruitment"
"James Shields"
"Justin Smith"
"New Orleans"
Ralph Wooster, Lone Star Soldiers in Gray for The Journal of South Texas 14 (Spring 2001).
C. Edward Skeen, Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812 for The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 97 (April 1999).
Charles M. Haecker and Jeffrey Mauck, On the Prairies of Palo Alto:
Historical Archaeology of a U.S.-Mexican War
Battlefield for Association for
Living History, Farm and Museums Bulletin 28 (Summer 1998).
Lawrence R. Clayton and Joseph E. Chance, eds. The March to Monterrey:
The Diary of Lt. Rankin Dilworth for East
Texas Historical Journal 35 (Fall 1997).
"Another Source of Partisan Conflict: The U.S. Army, Privilege,
and the Internal Improvements Debate," presented at the
Southwestern Social Science Association, San
Antonio, Texas, 1 April 1999.
"Creating a National Economy: The U.S. Army and the General Survey
Act of 1824," presented at the Mid-America
Conference on History, Fayetteville, Arkansas,
18 September 1998.
"Challenging the Notion of an Isolated Officers Corps: Officer
Resignations in the Jacksonian Era, 1830-1844," presented at
The Society for Military History, Wheaton,
Illinois, 24 April 1998.
"'The Girl I Left Behind Me' . . . Or Were They: United
States Army Laundresses and the U.S.- Mexican War, 1845-1848,"
presented at the Mid America Conference on
History, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 19 September
1997.
"Enlistment Patterns in the Regular Army: The Seventh U.S. Infantry
Regiment, 1841-1848," presented at the Southwestern
Social Science Association, Houston, Texas,
21 March 1996.
"From War to Peace: The Military Reorganization of 1815 and the
Foundation of American Military Professionalism,"
presented at the Southwest/Texas Regional
Popular Culture Association, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater,
Oklahoma, 17 February 1995.
"Daniel Morgan: Tactical Innovations at the Battle of Cowpens,"
presented at the Southwestern Regional Phi Alpha Theta
Conference, The University of Oklahoma, Norman,
Oklahoma, April, 1993.
Panel Discussant, "The Mexican War and the Antebellum United States,"
Mexican War Conference, Nicholls State University,
Thibodaux, Louisiana, 14 February 1998.
"The Texas Forts Trail, Then and Now," Farmers Branch Historical Museum, Farmers Branch Texas, 5 November 2001.
"'Public Prosperity' vs. 'Privilege': Military Engineering in
the Jacksonian Era," Society of American Military Engineers, Texas
A&M Post, 22 March 2000.
"Edward Everett, Alamo Artist: His Letters and His Life," Alamo Battlefields Association, San Antonio, Texas, 4 March 2000.
"The United States Army, 1835-1845: A Social Portrait," presented
at Fort Scott National Historic Site, Fort Scott, Kansas,
9 September 1995.