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What did Jefferson Davis accomplish as secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce?

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He enlarged the Army, modernized military procedures, boosted soldiers' pay (and morale), directed important Western land surveys for future railroad construction, and masterminded the Gadsden Purchase.

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