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The Regular Army Before the Civil War, 1845-1860

price for unpreparedness should the nation go to war. Such had been the case when America went to war with Great Britain in 1812, and the upcoming war with Mexico would be no different. Subsumed under the Department of War headed by a . civilian secretary, the U.S. Army was divided into bureau-

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