United States. War Department (1789-1947)
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1789 - 1947
Parallel Names
- United States. War Office
Historical
found: 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 was created in 1849; superseded by the Dept.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)