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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    The pension list of 1820 : U.S. War Department /
    Published 1991
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    A treatise of artillery : containing a new system, or the alterations made in the French artillery, since 1765. Translated from the French of M. de Scheel.
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    Operations in snow and extreme cold.
    Published 1944
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  4. 4
    Military intelligence : identification of Japanese aircraft /
    Published 1942
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    Government Document Book
  5. 5
    Cavalry drill regulations, United States Army. : 1916, cor. to December 31, 1917 (Changes nos. 1 and 2).
    Published 1918
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    The official atlas of the Civil War /
    Published 1958
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    Letter from the Secretary of War : transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of March 30, 1900, the original record of the court of inquiry relative to the unfitness for issue of certain articles of food, furnished by the Subsistence Department to troops in the field during the recent operations in Cuba and Porto Rico.
    Published 1900
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    Regulations for the organized militia : under the Constitution and the laws of the United States, 1910.
    Published 1911
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    Field service regulations : administration /
    Published 1940
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    Staff officers' field manual /
    Published 1932
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    Communication of Assistant Secretary of War, as president of War Department Claims Board, with relation to procedure and adjustment of contracts : (1) Payments under cost-plus contracts; (2) Payments under termination clauses; (3) Partial payments; (4) Subcontractors; (5) Interpretation of Supply Circular No. 111, as to compensation for use of capital tied up in raw material; and (6) Adjustment of contracts not properly executed in manner prescribed by law.
    Published 1919
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    Combined army publications. : (Manual for courts-martial, Rules of land warfare, Field service regulations, Small arms firing manual, Manual of interior guard duty, Uniform regulations) /
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    Anchorage grounds in Narragansett Bay (including Newport Harbor) and Bristol Harbor, R.I., and rules and regulations relating thereto.
    Published 1923
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    Anchorage grounds in Narragansett Bay (including Newport Harbor) and Bristol Harbor, R.I., and rules and regulations relating thereto.
    Published 1930
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    Rules and regulations relating to navigable waters of U.S., with exception of those for northern and northwestern lakes and their connecting and tributary waters, which are printed in U.S. Lake Survey bulletins.
    Published 1914
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    Rules and regulations relating to navigable waters of U.S., with exception of those for northern and northwestern lakes and their connecting and tributary waters printed in U.S. Lake Survey bulletin.
    Published 1922
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    Rules and regulations relating to navigable waters of U.S., with exception of those for northern and northwestern lakes and their connecting and tributary waters, which are printed in U.S. Lake Survey bulletin.
    Published 1927
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  18. 18
    Information circular : Applications for permits for work in navigable waters of U.S.
    Published 1927
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    Regulations to govern opening of New Bedford-Fairhaven drawbridge across Acushnet River, Mass.
    Published 1922
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    Anchorage grounds in New Bedford Outer Harbor, Buzzards Bay, Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds, Mass., and rules and regulations relating thereto.
    Published 1923
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