Reborn in The Civil War
During the American Civil War the army again reorganized, and on January 15, 1861, the independent Pacific Department was reconstituted by consolidating the Departments of California and Oregon. The first commander of the new Department of the Pacific was Colonel (Brevet Brigadier General) Albert Sidney Johnston who was later to become a prominent General in the Confederate Army.
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Famous quotes containing the words civil war, reborn, civil and/or war:
“Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garage’s earthquake.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“I was reborn when that jury said, “Guilty!””
—Myrlie Evers (b. 1933)
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—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
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—Herman Melville (1819–1891)