![]() ![]() Both Davis and Woods’s careers thus were harnessed to further American imperial expansion throughout the late nineteenth century. ![]() Historian Pekka Hämäläinen noted that, at home, American policymakers “envision a new kind of empire, one of cities, railroads, agricultural hinterlands, and real estate… set out to tame, commodify, and carve up the land.” Westward continental expansion caused what historian Elliott West describes as an end to a “diplomatic age of innocence” as shifting westward horizons “opened the United States to a range of new contacts and relationships.” According to diplomatic historian Richard Beisner, the United States began “a more aggressive and expansionist phase” of diplomacy in Asia and the Caribbean starting around the year 1890. Woods and Davis’s post-war careers took place at a time when the United States aggressively expanded its influence and power, first by staking transcontinental claims in the Far West and then through imperialist ventures abroad in the Caribbean and Far East. While Davis was a southerner and a cavalry officer, Woods was a navy physician from the North. This blog will discuss the lives of Wray Wirt Davis and George Worth Woods in depth. Of the Union veterans who attended the University of Virginia, nearly a dozen pursued military careers after the Civil War, including Wray Wirt Davis, George Worth Woods, Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Charles Eversfield, John Fox Hammond, Stephen Dandridge, John Edward Summers, Charles Irving Wilson, George Lea Febiger, John Thornley, and William Evelyn Hopkins. ![]()
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