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English
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The Department of the Pacific in the Civil War years
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Eugene, OR
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University of Oregon
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320
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Ph.D. Dissertation
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Details the Department of the Pacific, a major Army command consisting of all U.S. territory west of the Rocky Mountains except Utah Territory and the Department of New Mexico, their trials and tribulations on the frontier, and the political battles challenging their existence. The commanders and their men who soldiered in it were inexperienced. They had to deal with Congressional budget constraints, Indian issues of hostility, disease, poor local economies, secessionist activities, changing duties of occupation and coastal defense, the Mormon controversies, and a rapidly expanding territory. But most were able to accomplish their assignment-- the maintenance of peace.