adjutants-general

• “MONSIEUR LE PRINCE KOUTOUZOV: I am sending one of my adjutants-general to discuss several interesting questions with you.”

  War and Peace

• “This son of a Swiss porter is now one of Bonaparte's adjutants-general, a colonel of the Gendarmes d'Elite, a general of brigade in the army, and a commander of the Legion of Honour; all these places he owes, not to valour or merit, but to abjectness, immorality, and servility.”

  Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete

• “He was attended by his staff, composed of General G.W. Cullum, U.S. Engineers, as his chief of staff; Colonel George Thom, U.S. Engineers; and Colonels Kelton and Kemper, adjutants-general.”

  Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals

• “At the same time Lawrence Washington procured for his brother, then only nineteen years of age, an appointment as one of the adjutants-general of Virginia, with the rank of major.”

  George Washington

• “And Lawrence followed this up by persuading the governor of the colony to appoint George as one of the adjutants-general of Virginia.”

  Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans

• “That the Adjutant and Inspector-General's department shall consist of two assistant adjutants-general with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, two assistant adjutants-general with the rank of major, and four assistant adjutants-generals with the rank of captain.”

  A digest of the military and naval laws of the Confederate States : from the commencement of the Provisional Congress to the end of the first Congress under the permanent constitution,

• “That the President be and he is hereby authorized to appoint for the volunteer forces in the Confederate service as many assistant adjutants-general as the service may require, whose rank shall correspond with the rank of the assistant adjutants-general in the regular army, and who shall receive the same pay and allowances, according to their respective grades”

  A digest of the military and naval laws of the Confederate States : from the commencement of the Provisional Congress to the end of the first Congress under the permanent constitution,

• “Of assistant adjutants-general for volunteers ... ..”

  A digest of the military and naval laws of the Confederate States : from the commencement of the Provisional Congress to the end of the first Congress under the permanent constitution,

• “That the Adjutant and Inspector-General's department shall consist of one adjutant and inspector-general with the rank of colonel, * four assistant adjutants-general with the rank of major, and four assistant adjutants-general with the rank of captain.”

  A digest of the military and naval laws of the Confederate States : from the commencement of the Provisional Congress to the end of the first Congress under the permanent constitution,

• “For appointment of assistant adjutants-general for volunteer forces, see 98.”

  A digest of the military and naval laws of the Confederate States : from the commencement of the Provisional Congress to the end of the first Congress under the permanent constitution,

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