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United States. War Department

LC control no.n 79084108
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Corporate name headingUnited States. War Department
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Variant(s)United States. Departament Wojny w Waszingtonie
United States. Department of War
United States. Secretary of War
United States. War Dept.
See alsoUnited States. Department of the Army
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United States. Department of the Interior
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United States. Navy Department
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United States. War Office
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Beginning date1789
Ending date1947
LocatedUnited States
Special noteThe following subdivisions have not been used as headings: Allowance and Allotment Branch; Military Information Section; Information Section; Planning Branch; Contributary Division; Division of Militia Affairs; Militia Affairs Division. Unused see also cross reference?: United States. Office of the Secretary of War.
Found inIts Monthly allowances for the dependents of soldiers ... 1942.
NUCMC data from Rutgers Univ. Libr. for Political papers, 1755-1972 (U.S. Secretary of War)
Ward, H.M. The Department of War, 1781-1795, 1962.
Druga Wojna sĖwiatowa, 1990: t.p. (...Departamentu Wojny w Waszyngtonie)
LC man. auth. cd. (hdg.: U.S. War Dept.; created by act approved Aug. 7, 1789: the supervision of naval affairs which was orig. assigned to this department was transferred to the Navy dept. at its estab. in 1798; jurisdiction in the matters of public lands, military pensions, and Indian affairs was transferred to the Dept. of the Interior when that dept. was created in 1849; superseded by the Dept. of the Army which was estab. by the National Security Act of 1947, approved July 26, 1947)
Invalid LCCNsh 85141039