Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A non-commissioned staff-officer whose duty it is to receive, preserve, and issue all ordnance, arms, ammunition, or other ordnance stores at a military post or station, under the regulations of the War Department.
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Examples
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The invoices were signed by the former ordnance-sergeant, Olodowski, as a captain of ordnance, and I think he continued such on General Bragg's staff through the whole of the subsequent civil war.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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He had been drinking at the Name's-Day party of the ordnance-sergeant.
Hadji Murad 1904
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Just then entered an ordnance-sergeant, so smart in his rags that the
The Cavalier George Washington Cable 1884
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That there be added to the military establishment one quartermaster-sergeant for each regiment of cavalry and infantry, and one ordnance-sergeant for each military post, each to receive the pay and allowances of a sergeant-major, according to existing laws [75].
A digest of the military and naval laws of the Confederate States : from the commencement of the Provisional Congress to the end of the first Congress under the permanent constitution, Confederate States of America. 1864
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The brave ordnance-sergeant, Skillen, who was in charge there, begged hard that we would send him a few artillerists.
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 Abner Doubleday 1856
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In 1859, after the negroes were taken away, the fort remained in charge of an ordnance-sergeant, who lived there alone with his wife and two little children.
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 Abner Doubleday 1856
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The invoices were signed by the former ordnance-sergeant, Olodowski, as a captain of ordnance, and I think he continued such on General Bragg's staff through the whole of the subsequent civil war.
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 1 1855
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The invoices were signed by the former ordnance-sergeant, Olodowski, as a captain of ordnance, and I think he continued such on General Bragg's staff through the whole of the subsequent civil war.
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The invoices were signed by the former ordnance-sergeant, Olodowski, as a captain of ordnance, and I think he continued such on General Bragg's staff through the whole of the subsequent civil war.
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To this I replied, with all the earnestness the occasion demanded, that I would pledge my life that, if an inventory were taken of all the stores and munitions in the fort, and an ordnance-sergeant with a few men left in charge of them, they would not be disturbed.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Jefferson Davis 1848
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