Sentence examples for General commissary from inspiring English sources
Alongside the battlefield commands sat seven bureau heads – the adjunct general, commissary general, surgeon general, paymaster general, chief engineer, chief of ordnance and quartermaster general – who reported not to the general in chief, but instead to the secretary of war, causing perpetual friction between general staff officers and the civilian secretary.
Behind bars, however, inmates pay these fees with general commissary funds, which they also use to buy items like snacks, medicine, stationery and other supplies.
Within less than three months he was to be called upon to pass, in some form, on operations in every Southern state, and was besides to discharge some of the duties of the commissary general and quartermaster general.
On the third day Allen was exchanged for Colonel Archibald Campbell, who was conducted to the exchange by Colonel Elias Boudinot, the American commissary general of prisoners appointed by General George Washington.
Report of the Commissary General of the Territory of Oregon.
By August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann, Deputy Assistant Commissary General in the English Army.
The commissary general had put ovens in the basement and was baking bread for the entire Army of the Potomac.
Eyewitness to the Defeat of Napoleon; Field Notes of a Commissary General in the King's Legion ON THE ROAD WITH WELLINGTON, the Diary of a War Commissary.
In 1809 he was appointed commissary general of the armies in the field, a post in which he was able to amass a substantial fortune.
Archives|Eyewitness to the Defeat of Napoleon; Field Notes of a Commissary General in the King's Legion ON THE ROAD WITH WELLINGTON, the Diary of a War Commissary.
