War Department, U.S./Bibliography

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• Cline, Ray S. Washington Command Post: The Operations Division, United States Army in World War II. (1950)
• Coffman, Edward M. The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898 (1986), about fighting Indians and coastal defense
• Cosmas, Graham A. An Army for Empire: The United States Army in the Spanish-American War (1971)
• Hewes Jr, James E. From Root to McNamara: Army Organization and Administration, 1900-1963. (1975), the standard scholarly history online edition
• Huston, James A. The Sinews of War: Army Logistics, 1775-1953 (1966);
• Hyman, Harold M. Stanton, The Life of Lincoln's Secretary of War (1962)
• Karsten, Peter. "Armed Progressives: The Military Reorganizes for the American Century," in Jerry Israel, ed., Building the Organizational Society (1972)
• Koistinen, Paul A. C. Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1606-1865 (1996); Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919 (1997); Planning War, Pursuing Peace: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1920-1939 (1998); Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945 (2004) excerpt and text search 1940-45
• Shannon, Fred D. Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865, (2 vol. 1928)
• Skelton, William B. An American Profession of Arms: The Army Officer Corps, 1784-1861 (1992).
• Smith, Merritt Roe, ed. Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience (1985)
• Russell F. Weigley, Quartermaster General of the Union Army: A Biography of Montgomery C. Meigs (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959),
• White, Leonard D. The Federalists: a Study in Administrative History, (1948), the standard history of the department
  • White, Leonard D. The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History, 1801-1829 (1954); The Jacksonians: A Study in Administrative History, 1829-60 (1956); The Republican Era, 1869-1901 a Study in Administrative History, (1958) .
• Wilson, Mark R. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861--1865 (2006) excerpt and text search
• Wiltse, Charles M. John C. Calhoun,(1944), vol 1.