general officers

• “Of all the personal staff at army headquarters, the man best known to visitors and on most intimate terms with the aides of other general officers was Walter Taylor.”

  Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

• “Many jealousies and much ill-feeling, the outgrowth of former campaigns, existed among officers of high grade in the Army of the Potomac in the winter of 1864, and several general officers were to be sent elsewhere in consequence.”

  Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories

• “Many of the general officers of the army were present at the review, among them Generals Meade, Hancock, and Sedgwick.”

  Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories

• “Although the corps nomenclature established by General Buell was dropped, the grand divisions into which he had organized the army at Louisville were maintained, and, in fact, the conditions established then remained practically unaltered, with the exception of the interchange of some brigades, the transfer of a few general officers from one wing or division to another, and the substitution of General Thomas for Gilbert as a corps commander.”

  Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories

• “Nelson had obtained information that this ship was sent from Martinico, with two general officers and some engineers on board, to make a survey of our sugar islands.”

  The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson

• “With the members of my own staff and the general officers and their staff officers we compelled a rally and stand of Corse's Brigade and W.H. F. Lee's Cavalry, who made one of the most brilliant cavalry fights of the war, enabling many of us to escape capture.”

  Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America

• “Besides Jackson, six general officers were wounded: The new Louisiana brigadier, Francis T.”

  Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

• “DFCs and up were usually saved for one of our many visiting general officers and we asked them to hang them on the chests of the guys who had earned them.”

  Thud Ridge

• “The only other general officers in the corps were Brigadier-General Wesley Merritt,”

  Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories

• “In summary, then, that part of the Army of Northern Virginia in the Richmond-Petersburg area was weakened numerically, recruited uncertainly with less-experienced troops, and commanded by an officers' corps that included many incompetent regimental officers and not a few general officers of untested ability.”

  Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

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