... Alabama Altoona Philadelphia Pa Wilson Henry Buckingham Catharinus P Cleveland Ohio Delaware Stager Anson Temple John B Blair Francis P Sr Grant Buell Shiloh Stanton War Department limited war Banks Shenandoah Valley Taunting the national government as powerless had some foundation...

... and his advisors, the War Department, the Justice Department, and legislative committees about whether to evacuate the entire population of Italian aliens from military areas. Italian American politicians and prominent members of the Italian community testified to the loyalty of their community toward...

...Black recruits were promised the same pay as white soldiers, but the War Department chose to pay them significantly less. As a consequence, Black soldiers protested and mutinied against this injustice, and in some cases wrote directly to Lincoln to lodge their protest. African American Union...

...This chapter examines Edwin M. Stanton's power as secretary of the War Department during the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln's visit with General Winfield Scott represented the latest in a series of consultations he had sought as part of his military education. He had a conversation...

...This chapter examines Edwin M. Stanton's appointment to the Supreme Court under President Ulysses S. Grant's administration. Three weeks after Stanton left the War Department, Senator Edwin Morgan asked him to come to New York and speak for the lawmaker's reelection. John Russell Young...

... with the Confederate War Department and Engineer Bureau, as well as individual generals, to ensure a supply of slave labor on fortifications. Using the implementation of this policy in the Upper South as a window into the workings of the Confederacy, this book provides a social and political history of slave...

... and transportation was disrupted. The distribution of the goods also became a problem, and protests among Richmonders against the War Department arose. Davis Jefferson food shortages Kean Robert Northrop Lucius canal boats grain Henrico County meat railroads Richmond and Danville Railroad Richmond...

... that they be returned to Richmond and converted into heavy artillery. Carter finally received his furlough from the War Department on January 31. Two days later, he boarded a train and traveled to Richmond, along with the men and ordnance of the battalions of Carter Braxton and Wilfred Cutshaw. Once his furlough...

...This chapter examines Edwin M. Stanton's metamorphosis after he was appointed secretary of war by President Abraham Lincoln. Stanton succeeded Simon Cameron as the War Department's top honcho after the latter resigned in the wake of complaints about his incompetence and cronyism. Having heard...

...This chapter examines Edwin M. Stanton's appointment of his friends and relatives at the War Department. When Stanton presented the cabinet with his preliminary report on the army, on March 11, 1862, his estimate of the number of men under arms came as a shock. His war board had calculated 672,878...

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...This chapter describes the series of difficult issues faced by the U.S. War Department and the Federal government once the last Confederate armies had surrendered. Conditions in the Southern states guaranteed that Union troops would be needed for some time to establish and enforce the yet...

...This chapter examines Edwin M. Stanton's role as secretary of the War Department in the exchange of prisoners between the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. Stanton received a telegram from Charles Dana disparaging Alexander M. McCook. He gave the letter to President Abraham Lincoln...

...This chapter examines President Andrew Johnson's controversial attempt to remove Edwin M. Stanton as secretary of the War Department. Even as he declined Johnson's request to resign, Stanton must have known the president would take further steps to push him out of office. On August 12, 1867, when...