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quartermaster-general's

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  • Arriving in Cork, I reported at the quartermaster-general's department and was attached to the 12th Regiment.

    A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle Edwin George Rundle

  • I was a brigade clerk, and Sergeant Woffenden clerk in the quartermaster-general's department.

    A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle Edwin George Rundle

  • With the exception of the sutler's store for the use of the soldiers, there are neither shops, taverns, nor private buildings of any description; and I should have fared but badly if it had not been for the hospitality of Captain Enos, of the quartermaster-general's department, who most kindly assigned to me a room in his own quarters in the garrison, and made me a member of his mess.

    Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

  • It had not, however, been kept up as a proper naval force, but had been placed under the quartermaster-general's department of the Army, where it had been mostly degraded into a mere branch of the transport service.

    The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 William Charles Henry Wood 1905

  • I got here last night, and learned at the quartermaster-general's office that you were wounded and were somewhere in Brussels, at least they believed you were here somewhere, but they could not say where.

    One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo 1867

  • Lieut-Colonel Myers, induced me to appoint him to the important command at Niagara; it was with reluctance I deprived myself of his assistance, but I had no other expedient; his duties, as head of the quartermaster-general's department, were performed to my satisfaction by

    The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock Tupper, Frederick B 1845

  • At Cornwall, the escort was met by Captain Gray, of the quartermaster-general's department, who took charge of the prisoners of war, and from thence proceeded with them to La

    The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock Tupper, Frederick B 1845

  • So much will remain to be done, and such high expenses to be incurred in the quartermaster-general's departments, that I cannot too earnestly request your excellency to select an officer who may be equal to discharge the various duties of that office.

    The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock Tupper, Frederick B 1845

  • Lieut-Colonel Myers, induced me to appoint him to the important command at Niagara; it was with reluctance I deprived myself of his assistance, but I had no other expedient; his duties, as head of the quartermaster-general's department, were performed to my satisfaction by

    The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock Ferdinand Brock Tupper 1834

  • So much will remain to be done, and such high expenses to be incurred in the quartermaster-general's departments, that I cannot too earnestly request your excellency to select an officer who may be equal to discharge the various duties of that office.

    The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock Ferdinand Brock Tupper 1834

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