adjutant-general's

Why there should be any military management of men who are sick as men, and not as soldiers, it is difficult to see; and when the patients are about to leave the hospital, a stated supervision from the adjutant-general's department is all that can be required.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various

This was done by directing the adjutant-general to hold any orders that came from me to be issued from the adjutant-general's office until he had examined them and given his approval.

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

To administer the affairs of the army properly, headquarters and the adjutant-general's office must be in the same place.

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

At length the Secretary, though with evidently serious misgivings respecting some deep ulterior purpose of mine, consented that I might have an officer of the adjutant-general's department, whom I knew, in my own office, to keep me informed of what I was to do, and, if possible, what orders I might actually receive from the Secretary himself, and what from the several other heads of that hydra called the War Department.

Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield

Owing to his natural disposition to assume all power and control in all matters that he had anything whatever to do with, he boldly took command of the armies, and, while issuing no orders on the subject, prohibited any order from me going out of the adjutant-general's office until he had approved it.

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

The entire adjutant-general's office should be under the entire control of the general-in-chief of the army.

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

I have also had a careful tabular statement compiled from official records in the adjutant-general's office, giving the "effective strength" of the army under my command for each of the months of

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

I remember, as a group of officers were talking in the large room of the Arlington House, used as the adjutant-general's office, one evening, some young officer came in with a list of the new brigadiers just announced at the War

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

Previous to that time the officers of the adjutant-general's department -- on account of their intimate relations with commanding officers, as their official organs and the mediums through which all orders were transmitted -- had occupied it.

Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

He went to Springfield, Illinois, and offered his services, and after some delay was given a desk in the adjutant-general's office.

Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers 1917