United States Department of War

American War Department Weather Map depicting weather conditions on October 21, 1879 over New England at 7:35 am. Produced for the American army during the War of the Pacific. The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947.

The Secretary of War, a civilian with such responsibilities as finance and purchases and a minor role in directing military affairs, headed the War Department throughout its existence.

The War Department existed from August 7, 1789 until September 18, 1947, when it split into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force. The Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force later joined the Department of the Navy under the United States Department of Defense in 1949. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Treaties governing land warfare /
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    The mastership and its fruits : the emancipated slave face to face with his old master : a supplemental report to Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War /
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    War Department policy with reference to the disposal of draft deserters : August, 1920.
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    Das Herrenthum und seine Früchte : der emancipirte Sklave und sein früherer Herr : Ein Ergänzungsbericht an den Ehrenw. Edwin M. Stanton, Kriegsminister /
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    Sale of beer and light wines in post exchanges : a letter from the acting Secretary of War transmitting, in response to the inquiry of the House, various reports relating to the practical operation of the law prohibiting the sale of beer and light wines in post exchanges.
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    Published 1903
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    Enemy prisoners of war /
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    Industrial mobilization plan : revised--1933 : a revision of the plan for industrial mobilization submitted by the War Department in 1931 to the War Policies Commission appointed under the authority of public resolution no. 98, Seventy-First Congress.
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    Published 1935
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    Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, a copy of the report of Hon. Thomas Hood and Hon. S. W. Bostwick, special commissioners, upon the condition and treatment of colored refugees in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama.
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    Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the annual report relative to the work of the late Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
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    Published 1876
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    Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (to accompany H. Res. 128) : letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Assistant Adjutant-General of the Army in charge of the late Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, and recommending such legislation as will enable the officers of the Treasury Department to make new settlements in favor of certain colored claimants.
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    Published 1876
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    Compilation of general orders, circulars, and bulletins of the War Department : issued between February 15, 1881, and December 31, 1915.
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    Published 1916
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    Cases on military government.
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    Official record from the War Department, of the proceedings of the court martial which tried, and the orders of General Jackson for shooting the six militia men : together with official letters from the War department, (ordered to be printed by Congress) showing that these American citizens were inhumanly & illegally massacred.
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    Published 1828
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    Report of Joseph L. Bristow, special Panama Railroad Commissioner to the Secretary of War, June 24, 1905.
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    Military literature in the War Department Library relating chiefly to the participation of the individual states in the war for the Union.
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    Decisions of the Appeal Section, War Department Claims Board.
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    Rules of land warfare /
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    Rules of land warfare /
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    Legislative history of the Subsistence Department of the United States Army from June 16, 1775, to August 15, 1876 /
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    Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865.
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