All the teams of the three army corps, under the immediate charge of the quartermasters bearing them on their returns, will constitute a train for carrying supplies and ordnance and the authorized camp equipage of the army.
As supplies of ammunition, provisions and rations for the men were wanted, trains would be made up to deliver the stores to the commissaries and quartermasters encamped at Winchester.
It was now that the quartermasters were able to come to the aid of their young officer.
The two quartermasters cannoned into each other in attempting to regain their grip upon the captive.
Leaning over the mouthpiece of the speaking tube he ordered a couple of quartermasters to be sent to the conning-tower.
Accordingly Captain Ramshaw, Aubyn, Raeburn, and the two quartermasters proceeded to the cabin in which the German had been kept a prisoner.
Aubyn and Raeburn dashed from their place of concealment and the two quartermasters ran towards the spot.
Before the quartermasters could recover their wits, Aubyn and the German toppled over the coaming, and on top of the body of the prostrate Tretheway.
Without another word he left the cabin, signing to the quartermasters to double-lock the steel door.
One of thequartermasters grasped Aubyn by the collar of his white drill uniform coat.
Mr. Costigan and the quartermasterswill help you off, Mr. Davis.
Bickson, as chief quartermaster, was made responsible for the general policing of the craft, the other two quartermasters taking watch trick at the wheel in the pilot house.
Besides Costigan, there are three quartermasters and seven men in the crew.
Commanding officers of troops along the United States Military Railroads will give all facilities to the officers of the road and the Quartermasters for loading and unloading cars so as to prevent any delay.
Any military officer who shall neglect his duty in this respect will be reported by the Quartermasters and officers of the railroad, and his name will be stricken from the rolls of the Army.
But the two quartermasters had so often steered the steamer up and down the river that they had done very well, and there was no especial need of the midshipman as a pilot.
Port a little," said Christy to the quartermasters at the wheel.
The quartermasters and commissaries are actively engaged in getting out supplies.
But the four quartermasters speak fair English, and I have engaged two good German-American mates who speak German.
We get all that liner's coal passers, oilers, firemen, six deckhands and four quartermasters at the scale of wages prevailing in Hamburg.
One of the quartermasters was juggling with the wheel of the steam steering-gear like a man possessed, as he strove to keep the old hooker on her course.
The skipper, standing beside the two quartermasters at the helm, was about to take his sorely tried craft over the dangerous bar.
When past the quartermastersand out of hearing, he grumbled and whined: "No good, hey?
Because, mind you (notez bien), all the time of towing we had two quartermasters stationed with axes by the hawsers, to cut us clear of our tow in case she .
You must know they kept Kalashee watch in that ship, all hands sleeping through the night, and only the reliefs of quartermasters and look-out men being called.
The quartermasters who met the regiment announced that all the huts were full of sick and dead Frenchmen, cavalrymen, and members of the staff.
I shall send one of the quartermasters with you, Pringle.
To put the local quartermasters at Gallipolis and other towns on the Ohio side of the river under my command, General Wright enlarged the boundaries of my district so as to include the line of Ohio counties bordering on the river.
The inundation almost stopped communication, though our quartermasters tried to remedy part of the mischief by forcing light steamers up as near to the Kanawha Falls as possible.
At each of these, depot commissaries and quartermasters were located, and the posts and commands at the front drew their supplies from them.
Third, the head-quarters of the army and the quartermasters ought to have inquired at the head-quarters of the defenses of Washington, if the roads are safe.
No brains in the Quartermasters or in those to whom it belongs.
Under the procedure in vogue previous to the recent war, subsistence was purchased by depot quartermasters located in 13 principal cities throughout the United States.
I must inform the quartermasters at once, and look after the matter myself if your Majesty's costly magic pills are not to be spoiled by this wet April weather.
He is a native of Ratisbon, and can aid you and the quartermasters in assigning lodgings.
But fortunately this difficult situation was ended by one of the quartermasters of the palace named M.
Eugene Pierrugues wished to accompany me one day, and borrowed a horse from one of the quartermasters of the palace.
Beausset, prefect of the palace, and two quartermastersto prepare at Erfurt lodgings for all these illustrious visitors, and to organize the grand marshal's service.
We see men and women and children in the streets in dingy and dilapidated clothes; and some seem gaunt and pale with hunger--the speculators, and thieving quartermasters and commissaries only, looking sleek and comfortable.
The quartermastersat first said there were no drivers; but I pointed out the free Yankee negroes in the prisons, who beg employment.
The quartermasters in Texas are suggesting the impressment of the cotton in that State.
Yesterday the Senate passed a bill dropping all commissaries and quartermasters not in the field, and not in the bureaus in Richmond, and appointing agents instead, over 45 years of age.
President, to-day, approved, with directions to quartermasters to employ in such capacities all that could be procured.
There are fifty-one quartermasters and assistant quartermasters stationed in this city!
I believe the commissaries and quartermasters are cheating the government.
The rogues among the multitude ofquartermasters have made fortunes themselves, and almost ruined the country.
There were some commissaries and quartermasters present, who are supposed to have stolen much from the government, and desire to exchange the currency they have ruined for imperishable wealth.
He denounces the action also of quartermasters and commissaries in the Southwest.
Nevertheless, the commissaries and quartermastersare getting rich.
He also voted against displacing the brood of quartermasters and commissioners.
And the quartermasters on the roads are bribed, and, although the Quartermaster-General is apprised of these corruptions, nothing is done to correct them.
As it was, one of the two quartermasters was swept away and lost for ever in the raging sea, while the other lay stunned against the binnacle.
She was still hesitating--none but a sailor realises the extraordinary sanctity of the bridge--when one of the quartermasters uttered a warning cry.
This done, she wrote up the log and then stepped out on to the bridge, just as two relief quartermasters came up to take the wheel over.
Calamity, who alone had witnessed the accident, took the wheel from the quartermasters and sent them to rescue the second-mate from his perilous position.
It was an exciting time, when every light on board was extinguished, and the steamer started down the bay with Captain Pecklar and two quartermasters at the wheel.
I have stood my trick at the wheel for weeks together; and the quartermasters taught me all they knew about steering, the compass, the log, the lead, and the signals.
When the quartermasters deserted their posts the vessel, left to her own devices, slowly headed to starboard, and by the time Cardyke could give his attention to the helm, she was pointing almost due north.
By dint of threats and a few lusty strokes with the flat of his sword Cervillo compelled the quartermasters to return to their posts, only to discover that as fast as they put the helm up some mysterious agency promptly put it hard down.
The quartermasters bolted up the tripod mast, and sought refuge in the fire-control platform.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quartermasters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
