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Division of the Missouri (Run by Lt. Gen. Sherman)
Dept. of Missouri
Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock
(Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico)
Dept. of
the Platte
Bvt. Maj. Gen.
Philip St. George Cooke
(Iowa, Nebraska, Utah & part of Dakota & Montana)
Dept. of
Dakota
Bvt. Maj. Gen.
Alfred H. Terry
(Minnesota & the rest of Dakota & Montana)
Dept. of
Arkansas
Gen. Sherman
(Indian Territory)
Dept. of
the Gulf
Bvt. Maj. Gen.
Edward 0. C. Ord
Texas (where reconstruction overshadow frontier defense for several
years)
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Pacific Division (Run
by Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck -"Old Brains")
Dept. of California
Bvt. Maj. Gen. Irvin
McDowell
(California, Nevada & Arizona)
Dept. of Columbia
Bvt. Maj. Gen.
Frederick Steele
(Oregon, Washington & Idaho)
*In a sense this
new Regular Army became two armies, one serving the Congress in the
Reconstruction South, the other serving the Executive in the frontier
West.
*MISCELLANEOUS
1869- more 1000
officers boasted one or more brevets, & 138 of them claimed the brevet
of major general
1869 & 1870- laws were passed to deflate the brevet system except for
Presidential assignment (military courtesy continued the demand)
Not until the
1890's, after the Indian Wars, did reforms make military life (Pay,
living conditions, recognition) more agreeable.
1878 Post schools
for the education of soldiers became mandatory
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