But just before these offers were received, the Secretary of War tendered him the colonelcy of the 79th Highlanders, a New York regiment, which had been badly cut up at Bull Run, and he had accepted it.
His father had gone South to accept thecolonelcy of a regiment, and was with Buckner.
Regiments must be formed, and I have been offered the colonelcy of one of these regiments.
As to the colonelcy of the militia, the lord-lieutenant has my resignation.
Before his colonelcy he had been contented with a tandem, and his tandem was horsed from the four ordinary carriage-horses which were regularly kept at Wenderholme.
General Miles Staveley, who had held the Colonelcy of the regiment upwards of eleven years, died in September, 1814; and was succeeded by Lieut.
After the Duke of Ormond was promoted to the elevated station of Captain-General of the Forces, Brigadier-General Jocelyn obtained the Colonelcy of the FIFTH HORSE; and when his Grace was removed from the command of the army by King George I.
Lieutenant-General Thomas Pearce to the Colonelcyof the FIFTH HORSE, from the 5th Regiment of Foot.
Two cavalry regiments were added to the United States army in 1854, and to the colonelcy of one of these Johnston was appointed.
In 1854 he resigned from the engineers to accept the lieutenant-colonelcy of a cavalry regiment.
He had, in the meantime, been promoted to the colonelcy of his regiment.
Copeland, a Michigan man, promoted from the colonelcy of the Fifth.
For a time it was supposed that the colonelcy would go to an army officer, and it may be recalled as an interesting fact that George A.
He was at that time major and succeeded to the colonelcyafter the death of Brodhead.
While in these cantonments, an account arrived of our gallant Major-general (Kempt) having been appointed to the colonelcy of the 8th battalion of the 60th regiment, which had just been raised.
He had entered the regular army from the New York 7th, and at the time of his appointment to the Colonelcy was a captain in the 6th U.
Rogers, first commander of the 2d Battalion, was offered the colonelcy but declined; Daniel G.
The colonelcy of a regiment formerly implied a proprietary right in it.
At the present day, British general officers are often, though not always, given the colonelcy of a regiment, which has become almost purely an honorary office.
After the campaign in 1798 Jourdan sent up his name for the command of a brigade; but he preferred the colonelcy of the twenty-first regiment of cavalry.
John Sloan, promoted to Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 27th Regiment.
He afterward sought and obtained the colonelcy of the Sixty-first Ohio; but his service with it did not prove a success, and he resigned in September, 1862, under charges.
General Bates had some reason to expect an assignment to staff duty with McClellan, and therefore declined a colonelcy in the line at the end of the three months' service.
Garfield was a candidate for the colonelcy of the Seventh Regiment, but as he was still engaged in important public duties and was not connected with any company, he was at a disadvantage in the sort of competition which was then rife.
First becoming a lieutenant of artillery, he was promoted to a colonelcy of infantry, then he became a brigadier general, later a major general, and the close of the war found him a lieutenant general of cavalry.
His movements attracted the attention of the British authorities at Pensacola, and there was tendered him a colonelcy in their army, without interference with his chiefship in the Indian tribe.
In the series of battles below Richmond he was at the head of the gallant Third Alabama, having been promoted meanwhile to the colonelcy of the regiment.
Conceive then, how deeply he feels slighted when Washington fails to share these liberal views, and promotes him to nothing higher than that lieutenant colonelcy which his hopes have so much outgrown.
As he now, by the light of recent achievement, measures his merits nothing short of a colonelcy and the leadership of a regiment will do him justice.
At the breaking out of the war he immediately tendered his services to the Government, and soon rose to the colonelcy of the Thirty-Third Ohio Volunteers, and afterward to the rank of brigadier-general.
I was always kindly received by the General, and one day he asked me if I would be willing to accept the colonelcy of a certain Ohio regiment if he secured the appointment.
Immediately, a difficulty arose due to the fact that, subsequent to his election to the senatorship and in addition thereto, Lane had accepted a colonelcy tendered by Oliver P.
The brigading took place as agreed upon and Furnas, brigade commander, retained his colonelcyof the First Indian, while Lieutenant-colonel David B.
There being no officer senior to him, his way was open to the Colonelcy of his regiment at the time of his death.
Captain Lewie thus voluntarily yielded his just claims to the Colonelcy to Captain Davis, and accepted the position of Lieutenant Colonel, places both filled to the end.
At this camp I met many old friends, among whom was Colonel Royal, who had received his promotion to the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the Third Cavalry.
General Wesley Merritt--who had lately received his promotion to the Colonelcy of the Fifth Cavalry--now came out and took control of the regiment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colonelcy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
