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Library of Congress1864

Catalogue of the museum of flags, trophies and relics relating to the revolution, the war of 1812, the Mexican war, and the present rebellion; forming the most complete and interesting collection ever brought together in the United States: to be exhibited at New York, April 4, 1864, and on the succeeding days, for the benefit of the United States sanitary commission.

At head of title: Department of arms and trophies. Metropolitan fair. Differs from another edition in having the list of committees printed on verso of t.-p., and the verso of the next leaf blank. Also available in digital form.

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Library of Congress1923

Increase of pensions. Message from the President of the United States, returning to the Senate without his approval Senate Bill 3275, "An Act Granting Pensions to Certain Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the Civil and Mexican Wars and to Certain Widows, Army Nurses, Former Widows, Minor Children ... and to Widows of the War of 1812 ..." January 3, 1923. -- Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed

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Library of Congress1858

Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route

"The United States gained vast territories in the West through the Mexican War of 1846-48 and the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Great Britain. By the early 1850s, government and commercial interests were debating the possibilities of building a transcontinental railroad to the Pacific. The Army Appropriations Act of 1853 provided for the completion of railroad surveys to determine possible routes. This map, issued in 1858 by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, depicts the United States west of the Mississippi on the eve of the Civil War. California and Texas were at this time the only Western states. Western regions initially became part of the United States as military departments, which only later were organized into territories and, eventually, states. The map uses colors to show the military departments and Indian lands. Brown flags indicate military establishments. In the lower right are listed all of the important surveys and expeditions that contributed to the mapping of the West, from the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 to a survey of roads between the Sacramento and Columbia Rivers undertaken by two army officers in 1855. The routes of these expeditions are shown on the map. The map was compiled by then-Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren of the Army Topographical Engineers and a future Union general in the Civil War. Davis later became president of the Confederacy and a bitter adversary of President Abraham Lincoln under whose leadership, ironically, work on the transcontinental railroad began in 1862." World Digital Library.

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Library of Congress1900

Report of the adjutant general of the state of Illinois ...

Includes rosters of officers and enlisted men, 1861-1866. Vol. 9 contains reprint of Gen. I.H. Elliott's Record of Illinois soldiers in Black Hawk and Mexican wars, and record of Illinois soldiers in Spanish-American war (issued also separately) Also available in digital form.

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Library of Congress1895

In the Senate of the United States. February 15, 1895. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Pasco, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: (To accompany H.R. 8122.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the Bill (H.R. 8122) to further amend section 9 of the act for the relief of certain volunteer and regular soldiers of the late war and the war with Mexico

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