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This link has been bookmarked by 4 people . It was first bookmarked on 20 Apr 2009, by John LeMasney.

  • 25 Oct 09
  • 24 Oct 09
    moultriecreek
    Moultrie Creek

    "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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  • 06 May 09
  • 14 Jan 09
    lemasney
    John LeMasney

    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 eff

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