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President Johnson first appointed General John Schofield as the first military governor of the district. Schofield commanded the Federal Army of the Ohio and had served with General Sherman during the last year of the war. Schofield sympathized with Virginia's social and economic leaders and was skeptical of radical proposals to allow African ...
1st Military District, 1813–15 (New Hampshire and Massachusetts, including current Maine) 2d Military District, 1814–15 (Rhode Island and Connecticut) 3d Military District, 1813–15 (New York "from the sea to the highlands," and East Jersey) 4th Military District, 1813–14 (West Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware)
Fourth Military District (Arkansas and Mississippi) Fifth Military District (Texas and Louisiana) Each of these districts fell under the command of former Union Army general officers to supervise the replacement of undesirable former Confederate officials and use military force to guarantee the safety of liberated African Americans and maintain ...
The Russian Empire's military district (Russian: вое́нный о́круг, voyenny okrug) was a territorial association of military units, formations, military schools, and various local military establishments.
The United States Military District was a land tract in central Ohio that was established by the Congress to compensate veterans of the American Revolutionary War for their service. The tract contains 2,539,110 acres (10,275.4 km 2 ) in Noble , Guernsey , Tuscarawas , Muskingum , Coshocton , Holmes , Licking , Knox , Franklin , Delaware ...
Its installations include Fort McNair, the nation's third-oldest military post still in use, and Fort Myer, Gen. Philip Sheridan's cavalry showplace and site of the first military aircraft flight. The District of Washington initially included Fort Washington, Md., Fort Hunt, Va., the District of Columbia
Nathaniel Massie (December 28, 1763 – November 13, 1813) was a frontier surveyor in the Ohio Country (including the Virginia Military District) [1] who became a prominent land owner, politician, and soldier. He founded fourteen early towns in what became the State of Ohio, including its first capital, Chillicothe.
The Fourth Military District comprised the states of Mississippi and Arkansas, with its headquarters in Vicksburg. Edward Ord served as the district's first commander, with Alvan C. Gillem, like Johnson a loyal Tennessean, in charge of the sub-district of Mississippi. Gillem was later appointed as the district's commander.