Papers of the War Department - 1784 to 1800 - 3 views
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Moultrie Creek on 24 Oct 09"Fire destroyed the office of the War Department and all its files in 1800, and for decades historians believed that the collection, and the window it provided into the workings of the early federal government, was lost forever. Thanks to a decade-long effort to retrieve copies of the files scattered in archives across the country, the collection has been reconstituted and is offered here as a fully-searchable digital database."
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Taneya Koonce on 07 Dec 09Reviewed in Internet Genealogy magazine Dec/Jan 2010 issue by Diane L. Richard