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Quartermaster general   /kwˈɔrtərmˌæstər dʒˈɛnərəl/   Listen
Quartermaster general

noun
1.
A staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army.





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... Saratoga, Congress perceived the necessity of appointing a more efficient commander for the Southern army. Accordingly Gen. Washington was directed to make the selection from his well-tried and experienced officers. Whereupon the commander-in-chief appointed General Nathaniel Greene, late the Quartermaster General, on the 30th of October, 1780, who, in a few days afterward, set out for his field of labor. As he passed through Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, he ascertained what supplies it was likely could be obtained from those States; and leaving the Baron Steuben ...
— Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical • C. L. Hunter


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