To this it was replied, that as each state claimed a number of general officers, proportioned to the troops it furnished, and as Connecticut already had two, there existed no vacancy for another.
Davis and his fugitive cabinet; and some one of my general officers, either Logan or Blair, insisted that, if asked for, we should even provide a vessel to carry them to Nassau from Charleston.
Their loss was very severe, especially in general officers; among them Generals Cleburn and Adams, division commanders.
In a council of general officers it had been thought advisable to give leave of absence to half, lest the whole should depart.
The ordinary posts of the majors and captains is that of aides-de-camp to general officers.
General officers on the non-effective list will pay according to their last substantive rank.
That an increased number of general officers is essential to the public service.
In consequence of his refusal to accept the appointment offered him, the Committee of Public Safety decreed that he should be struck off the list of general officers.
He admitted it to be proper that many officers in the Executive Department should be so appointed--but contended that many ought not, asgeneral officers in the army in time of peace &c.
M^r Madison moved to amend the next part of the clause so as to read "reserving to the States respectively, the appointment of the officers, under the rank of General officers.
Moves that States have power to appoint militia officers under rank of general officers.
For my part, I will vote upon the genuine principles of a republic for a new election of General officers annually, and every man shall have my consent to be left out who does not give sufficient proof of his qualifications.
Whether an inquiry will precede the court martial, and whether the inquiry shall be made by a committee of Congress or by a council of general officers, is not determined, but inquiry and trial both, I conjecture, there will be.
Some of my friends in the Fourth Corps, knowing that Sheridan was to leave his division, had suggested my appointment there, but the surplus of general officers prevented.
Atlanta, and being juniors on the list of general officers, their claims to the larger command were not considered very strong.
He immediately assembled a council of general officers, and laid these papers before them.
SIR, I have the honour to enclose Congress a copy of the proceedings of a Board of General Officers in the case of Major Andre Adjutant General to the British army.
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