Title: The Delafield Commission and the American military profession
Description: "In 1855, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis dispatched Maj. Richard Delafield, Maj. Alfred Mordecai, and Capt. George B. McClellan to the battlefields of Crimea to observe the European military in action. American military commanders had studied European armies before, but the Delafield Commission was the most ambitious military observation mission up to that time and the first to observe an ongoing war.

Although historically underrated, the commission and the members' reports constituted an important step in the development of U.S. military professionalism. In The Delafield Commission and the American Military Profession, Matthew Moten is the first to explore in detail this connection between the commission and military professionalization.".

"The Delafield Commission and the American Military Profession provides in-depth analysis to military historians and other readers interested in the development of the professional army in antebellum America."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Armies, Crimean War, 1853-1856, History, Officers, United States, United States. Army, United States. Military Commission to Europe, United states, army, officers, United states, army, history
Places: Europe
Time periods: 19th century