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[Benjamin Barrett]

According to Wikipedia, they continued believing that until 1947, though it was also called the War Department: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Department_of_War

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On Jul 8, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

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> There never was a Department of War?
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> In 1832 they thought there was:
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> http://www.jstor.org/stable/60205341
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> DanG
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> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:53 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Wilson wrote: <<<Department of War > Department of Defense  > Department of
>> Good?>>>
>> WB: I once heard Hal Gleason rant that there never was a Department of War
>> or a Defense Department: it was a War Department and is a Department of
>> Defense.
>> War Office > War Department > Department of Defense > *Homeland "R" Us?
>>

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