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Army and Mississippi
A proper cavalry command in his front would have developed the fact that he had run into one division of Polk's Army of the Mississippi moving up from the direction of Mobile to join Johnston at Dalton.
On March 29, 1862, Johnston officially took command of this combined force, which continued to use the Army of the Mississippi name under which it had been organized by Beauregard on March 5.
* 1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
" On January 23, 1861, Pettus made Davis a major general of the Army of Mississippi.
* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps ( ACW ) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
Grant previously had implemented two diversion battles that confused Pemberton and allowed the Union Army to cross the Mississippi River.
The fall of Vicksburg in 1863, combined with the Union naval capture of New Orleans in 1862, gave the Union Army and Navy control over the entire Mississippi and logistically fractured the Confederacy.
* June 4 – American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for U. S. Army troops to capture Memphis, Tennessee.
The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, in conjunction with the Mississippi River Commission, extended the levee system beginning in 1882 to cover the riverbanks from Cairo, Illinois to the mouth of the Mississippi delta in Louisiana.
Command in the West was unified under Grant ( Military Division of the Mississippi ), and Sherman succeeded Grant in command of the Army of the Tennessee.
To bolster law enforcement, President John F. Kennedy sent in U. S. Army military police from the 503rd Military Police Battalion, and called in troops from the Mississippi Army National Guard and the U. S. Border Patrol as well.
Secretary of the Army Francis J. Harvey ( r ) discusses U. S. Army Corps of Engineers operations in New Orleans with Brigadier General Robert Crear, commander, Mississippi Valley Division, USACE in New Orleans, 2006.
Despite Radical Republican associations, John Dahlgren's younger brother Charles G. Dahlgren ( 1811 – 1888 ) was a strong proponent of slave ownership and was a Confederate Brigadier General, Commander of the 3rd Brigade, Army of Mississippi, which he personally funded.
He worked on a board of Army and Navy engineers to improve the navigation of the shipping channels at the mouth of the Mississippi.
Having become a political liability in Virginia, Beauregard was transferred to Tennessee to become second-in-command to General Albert Sidney Johnston ( no relation to Joseph E. Johnston ) in his Army of Mississippi, effective March 14, 1862.
The city is located south of Fort Leavenworth, the oldest active Army post west of the Mississippi, which was established in 1827 by Colonel Henry Leavenworth.
* Van H. Manning, Confederate Army colonel and U. S. Representative from Mississippi, practiced law in Hamburg in 1861
Lake Providence is located adjacent to the Mississippi River ; and prior to the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers building the current levee system, the meandering river would overflow its bank and take valuable lands.
* 890th Engineer Battalion Mississippi Army National Guard
As a result of Nathan Bedford Forrest preventing the Union Army from reaching Columbus, the Antebellum homes of Columbus were spared from being burned or destroyed, making its collection second only to Natchez as the most extensive in Mississippi.

Army and Encyclopedia
* Philip R. N. Katcher, Encyclopedia of British, Provincial and German Army Units 1775-1783 ( Harrisburg, Penna.
* Army of the James in Encyclopedia Virginia
* PLCE on the ' Army Rumour Service ' Encyclopedia

Army and American
In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.
The result was that the rate of venereal disease in the American Army was the lowest in our military history.
The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.
Another remained when an American Army car was recovered but with a broken glass.
The possibility of recall into the Army is part of the price that a modern American has to pay for the enviable heritage of liberty which he enjoys.
The American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
The Royal Lao Army, on the other hand, was paid and equipped with American funds.
* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
* 1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded.
* 1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
* 1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U. S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army
Abner Doubleday ( June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893 ) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.
* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )
* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
* 1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
* 1950 – Hill 303 massacre: American POWs were massacred by the North Korean Army.
* 1950 – Bloody Gulch massacre: American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army.
* 1942 – World War II: the Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
* 1961 – Dean DeLeo, American guitarist ( Stone Temple Pilots, Talk Show, and Army of Anyone )

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