major-generalship

• “Wood was to be promoted to a major-generalship and the remaining promotions were dependent upon his advance.”

  The United States Since the Civil War

• “From this he rose by regular and rapid degrees to a major-generalship.”

  A Brief History of the United States

• “States army (e. g., his major-generalship during the Mexican War), as chancellor of Mississippi, judge of the High Court of Errors and”

  Eighth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1937-38

• “One of these was Charles Lee, who thought the major-generalship to which Congress appointed him beneath his notice; the other was also an Englishman,”

  George Washington

• “Rosecrans were each informed that the first of them to win a victory would get the vacant major-generalship in the United States Army in place of his present volunteer rank.”

  Abraham Lincoln

• “Sharpsburg, where he wrung admiration from his superior officers, appeared to call for recognition from the President, but he did not receive his major-generalship, and, although more than once in the actual command of a division, did not secure that title.”

  Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage

• “He was continued as governor, but had to resign his major-generalship, which passed to Anthony Wayne.”

  History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6)

• “Arnold's gallant conduct was at once rewarded by a major-generalship.”

  History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6)

• “Grant, offering the position of the then vacant major-generalship in the regular army, to the general in the field who should first achieve an important and decisive victory.”

  The Army of the Cumberland

• “But as there was a good chance for a fight, and, in fact, a good many fights, and as a major-generalship was not to be sneered at, he accepted it, and resigned the commission which he held in the English army.”

  Stories of New Jersey

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