United States. War Office
United States. War Office
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found: Its Evans' microprint ed.
found: LC man. auth. cd. (hdg.: U.S. War Office; see also: U.S. Continental Congress. Board of War and Ordnance; U.S. War Department; citation: Hamersly, Mil. hist. of the Dept. of War in his Complete regular Army reg. of the U.S., 1880, p. 215: "on 12 June 1776 a committee in the Contintental Congress passed a resolution 'that a Committee of Congress be appointed by the name of the Board of War and Ordnance'"; p. 226-227: the Board of War continued as a board until in 1781 Congress erected the office of Secretary of War; p. 229: on 11 Apr. 1783 Congress proclaimed the cessation of arms... and from this period until 24 Mar. 1785 the business of the War Office was conducted under the designation of "Secretary in the War Office"; p. 233: in 1789 Congress enacted "that there shall be an executive department to be denominated the Department of War.")
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1981-10-19: new
2013-05-03: revised
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