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brigadier-generals

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  • As Law's troops were veterans, their behavior had to be attributed "to a strong feeling of jealousy among the brigadier-generals."

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • As Law's troops were veterans, their behavior had to be attributed "to a strong feeling of jealousy among the brigadier-generals."

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Only 13 of 40 brigadier-generals were black, 32 of 241 colonels, 112 of 736 lieutenant-colonels, 310 of 861 majors, 528 of

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • † General Meynier was removed from command very early in the campaign; thereafter Massena led the division in person, or left it to the brigadier-generals.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • † General Meynier was removed from command very early in the campaign; thereafter Massena led the division in person, or left it to the brigadier-generals.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • (Jean-Marie, who had been wont to have my old boots, etc.), to brigadier-generals.

    Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

  • Louisville was in a foment of excitement, and if the rebels had only possessed the dash, there was scarce a day but they could have made a foray upon the "Galt," and captured from forty to fifty nice-looking officers, from brigadier-generals down to lieutenants.

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

  • All the Generals resigned, and those who did not resign were promoted; colonels were made brigadier-generals, captains were made colonels, and the private soldier, well, he deserted, don't you see?

    "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins

  • To the Field Companies fell the dangerous task of taping out the jumping-off lines for the attacks, but they invariably achieved this difficult task to the complete satisfaction of the brigadier-generals and units concerned in the operations.

    A Short History of the 6th Division Aug. 1914-March 1919 Thomas Owen Marden

  • As a part of that scheme, one of the most active brigadier-generals, younger than one of the major-generals, was selected instead of the latter to make way for an aspirant having greater "influence."

    Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield

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