United States Department of War

1789 – 1947

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. **Source**: [United States Department of War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War) on Wikipedia.

• List of field officers, regiments, and battalions in the Confederate States army, 1861-1865
• Army recipes
• Handbook on German Military Forces
• The Official Atlas of the Civil War
• The war of the rebellion
• The War of the Rebellion
• The war of the rebellion
• War of the Rebellion
• Basic field manual
• War department regulations
• A manual of courts martial, U.S. Army
• Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies