field-officer

In a Galean field-officer uniform, far more muted than their dress uniform, he looked grand on his well-bred mount.

Men Don't Leave Me 2010

Such stories of conquest were a frequent topic of conversation at the rare but real field-officer get-togethers that the Agency occasionally held, usually at The Farm, for the field spooks to compare notes on techniques-the after-hour beer sessions often drifted in this direction.

The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

I felt many qualms at first in allowing men of this stamp to come in, for I could not be certain that they had counted the cost, and was afraid they would find it very hard to servenot for a few days, but for monthsin the ranks, while I, their former intimate associate, was a field-officer; but they insisted that they knew their minds, and the events showed that they did.

The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

I had with a Confederate field-officer a few minutes after he was captured that day, and which I reported to General Thomas that evening.

Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield

It appears, that, with a single exception, they were all _lieutenants_, whereas "in a European service the chief engineer serving with an army-corps would be a field-officer, generally a colonel."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

Atlee's and Huntington's men opened upon them, and for a second time compelled their retreat, with the loss of Lieutenant-Colonel Grant, a brave and valued field-officer of the Fortieth Regiment, whose fall gave ground for the report, credited for some days after in the

The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston

This was the only time I ever heard a field-officer upbraided by privates; but one of the officers got ample abuse from us on that occasion.

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Edward A. Moore

Major Bell, the new field-officer of this regiment.

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

He has seen a lieutenant tried for neglect of duty in allowing a soldier under his command, at an important picket-post, to be found by the field-officer of the day with two inches of sand in the bottom of his gun, -- and pleading, in mitigation of sentence, that it had never been the practice in his regiment to make any inspection of men detailed for such duty.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

A single battalion of four companies, with a field-officer, will compose a good body for a garrison, for a separate expedition, or for a detachment; and, in war, three regiments would compose a good brigade, three brigades a division, and three divisions a strong cavalry corps, such as was formed and fought by Generals Sheridan and Wilson during the war.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger