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The Eastern Division was restored in 1844 with subordinate 5th Military Department until 1848 and the 8th Military Department until 1846. From 1848 to 1853 the Eastern Division had 4 subordinate departments. 1st Military Department, 1848–53; consolidated 1st and 3d Military Departments, 1849–50
After October 31, 1853 the division echelon was eliminated and the departments in the east became one Department of the East, administering all the territory east of the Mississippi River. The six western departments consolidated into four (Departments of Texas, New Mexico, the West, and the Pacific).
The four departments (1st-4th) of the Eastern Division were similarly consolidated into the Department of the East, with boundaries encompassing all the states east of the Mississippi River. It remained thus until August 17, 1861, when the American Civil War created a need for a vast increase in the Union Army and more departments to administer ...
Military Division of the Southwest May 29, 1865 - June 27, 1865. (Territory in the Trans - Mississippi south of the Arkansas River - Major General Philip H. Sheridan. Merged into the Military Division of the Gulf) Department of Louisiana and Texas, May 29, 1865 - June 27, 1865; Southern Division of Louisiana, May 29, 1865 - June 27, 1865.
The act established the division as a basic Army unit, replacing the pre-World War I notion of the regiment in war planning. Tactically and administratively, each corps area commander was the senior army officer for his geographical area, typically functioning as a commanding general of an existing Regular Army corps or division in their area.
First Army Division East is a division of the First United States Army.With its new role, the First Army developed two subordinate multi-component headquarters – one division to support the eastern United States and the other to support the western United States.
The 12th (Eastern) Infantry Division was a second-line Territorial Army division, during the Second World War. Under-trained, it was taken off guard duty in the UK and dispatched to France as a labour division. It was intended to be used to help construct airfields and pillboxes.
The United States federal executive departments are the principal units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States.They are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but (the United States being a presidential system) they are led by a head of government who is also the head of state.