The Military Policy of the United States

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CHAPTER XII.-CAMPAIGN OF 1815.

Operations of the Navy

Number of troops employed during the war.

Pensions...

Cost of the war..

Lessons of the war.

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CHAPTER XIII.— MILITARY POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE

WAR OF 1812 TO THE FLORIDA WAR.

Reorganization of 1815..

Transmission of the President's orders to the Army

Seminole War

Reorganization of 1821.

Relations of the General in Chief and Secretary of War to the Army..

Black Hawk War ....

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CHAPTER XIV.-FLORIDA WAR.

Campaign of 1836...

Increase of raw troops

Creek campaign

Operations in Florida.

Number of troops employed in 1836.

Campaign of 1837.....

Number of troops employed in 1837

Detached service ...

Increase of the Army.

Complications with Great Britain..

Campaigns from 1838 to 1842...

Militia forced upon the Government..

Number of troops employed in the Florida War

Losses of the war....

Cost of the war.

Reduction of the Army

Lessons of the war....

CHAPTER XV.-MILITARY POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE

MEXICAN WAR.

Military legislation during the war

Campaigns of Monterey and Buena Vista

Campaign of the City of Mexico..

Military policy of the United States from the Mexican War to the Rebellion.

CHAPTER XVII.- MILITARY POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE

REBELLION.

Call for militia.

Refusal of governors to furnish militia

Spread of the Rebellion ....

President Lincoln exercises dictatorial powers

Legalizing the President's action..

Our armies organized by the Secretary of Treasury

Use of the Regular Army.

Patriotism of the Army.

Furnishing military leaders for the Rebellion..

Military adventurers.

Battle of Bull Run.....

Other military operations in 1861.

CHAPTER XVIII.- MILITARY POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE

REBELLION-Continued.

Military legislation in 1861

Defects of the military legislation in 1861.

Success of the departments of supply.

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Adjutant-General's Department

Influence of States rights on military legislation at the beginning of the Rebel-

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Troops employed in 1861...

Expenditures for the year 1861...

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CHAPTER XIX.-CAMPAIGN OF 1862.

First period...

Second period...

Third period..

Review of the campaign of the Army of the Potomac to April 1, 1862.

CHAPTER XX.-REVIEW OF CAMPAIGN OF ARMY OF THE POTOMAC FROM

APRIL 1 TO CLOSE OF FIRST PERIOD OF 1862.

Defenses of Washington

Second Aulic Council

Plan of campaign against Yorktown

Method of McClellan's appointment to the Regular Army

Occupation of Fredericksburg

Review of the campaign of the Army of the Potomac from the beginying of

the second period of 1862 to its retreat to Harrison's Landing...

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CHAPTER XXII.

Review of the campaign of the Army of the Potomac from its arrival at Har-

rison's Landing to its withdrawal from the Peninsula.....

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CHAPTER XXIII.-REVIEW OF THE CAMPAIGN OF THE SECOND Bull Run.

General Pope's orders and disposition of troops..

Board of Inquiry on General Fitz John Porter...

General McClellan's despatches

Relations of the Secretary of War to the Commander of the Army of the

Potomac.

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CHAPTER XXV.

Review of the campaign of the Army of the Potomac from the restoration to

the final removal of General McClellan from command

Review of criticisms of General McClellan....

Final removal of General McClellan from command

Appointment of General Burnside to command..

Appointment of General Hooker to command...

Review of military operations in the West, from the battle of Shiloh to the

battle of Corinth

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CHAPTER XXVII.-INFLUENCE OF THE STATES IN DEPLETING OUR ARMIES.

Government control of railways.

Increase of Medical Department..

Pensions..

Treason and slavery

Militia and volunteers

Troops raised in 1862 ....

CHAPTER XXX.-MILITARY POLICY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF

Provisional and permanent constitutions

First session Provisional Congress

Provisional Army

Regular Army

Second session Provisional Congress

Existence of war recognized..

Control of telegraphs ...

Third session Provisional Congress

Call for 400,000 volunteers

Financial and internal tax laws

Fourth session Provisional Congress

Fifth session Provisional Congress..

Bounties, furloughs, reenlistment, and recruitment

First session First Congress....

Writ of habeas corpus suspended

CHAPTER XXXI.- MILITARY POLICY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF

AMERICA-(Continued).

First session First Confederate Congress (continued).

Conscription law ....

Exemptions from conscription..

Promotion of officers.....

Second session First Confederate Congress

Formation of a second reserve...

Examining boards......

Medals of honor and badges of distinction.

Third session First Confederate Congress.

First session First Confederate Congress-Continued.

Fourth session First Confederate Congress.

Impressments

Appropriations

Final conscription

Exemptions from conscription.....

First session Second Confederate Congress.

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