Department off the Missouri

The Military Department off the Missouri was a division of the US Army which operated at the time of the American Civil War and later at the time of the Indian Guerres.

American Civil War

Division is resulting from the reorganization and the dissolution of the Department off the West the November 9th 1861, after Abraham Lincoln dismissed John C. Frémont not to have followed its orders of emancipation of the slaves of the Missouri and of imposition of the martial Loi in this State. David Hunter was briefly the last one ordering Department off the West .

It included/understood the States of the Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois and Kentucky in the west of the river Cumberland and later the Kansas. Its first general was Henry Wager Halleck.

Indian wars

In 1865, at the end of the American Civil War, it was famous Division off Missouri (although one continued to call it off usually Department the Missouri ). Its general headquarter was with Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. The Division off Missouri was restored in 1866 when the Indian Wars began and it was going to supervise all the famous incidents and battles of this war, including the fine tragedy of the general Custer. Its components evolved/moved during various reorganizations which concerned:

• the Department off Dakota - Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and part of the Idaho of the South Dakota and the portion of Yellowstone on the Wyoming).

• the Department off the Missouri - Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Indian Territory and Territory off Oklahoma
• the Department off the Platte - Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming (except for Yellowstone), Territory off Utah
• the Department off Texas - Texas

Commanders

American Civil War

• Henry Wager Halleck (1861-1862)
• Samuel Ryan Curtis (1862-1863)

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