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Definition of Quartermaster general
1. Noun. A staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quartermaster General
Literary usage of Quartermaster general
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"About the middle of December, the quartermaster general, Major-Gen. Henry G.
Sharpe, was relieved, and made a member of the National Defense Council. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1903)
"A commander without a Quartermaster-General would be crippled; ... He points out
that the Quartermaster-General will confidentially discuss his projects ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"poet of deputy quartermaster-general in the 1880 to 1885. In 1^*4 lu- was sent
to Achin ¡ --nee branch at headquarters from ne the crew of the ..."
4. Guide to the Archives of the Government of the United States in Washington by Claude Halstead Van Tyne (1907)
"The duties of the Quartermaster-General were performed by the Secretary of War
until the establishment of the quartermaster's department in 1812 (2 Stat. ..."
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