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	Quartermaster general - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Quartermaster general is the staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army.
		In the United States, the Quartermaster General is a general officer who is responsible for the Quartermaster Corps, the Quartermaster branch of the United States Army.
		The office of the Quartermaster General was established by resolution of the Continental Congress on 16 June 1775, but the position was not filled until 14 August 1775.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Generalquartiermeister (263 words)

	AIREY - LoveToKnow Article on AIREY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		(1803-1881), British general, was the son of Lieutenant-General Sir George Airey (1761-1833) and was born in 1803.
		He entered the army in 1821, became captain in 1825, and served on the staff of Sir Frederick Adam in the Ionian Islands (1827-1830) and on that of Lord Aylmer in North America (1830-1832).
		a chief of the general staff, but a different view of the duties of the office was then becoming recognized.
	72.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AI/AIREY.htm (362 words)

	Major General Nathanael Greene - Quartermaster General 1778-1780 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		General Greene proved himself competent and thwarted the plans of trained British professionals, such as Generals Rawdon and Cornwallis, brilliantly leading the southern army to victory..
		The administrative ability he exhibited as head of the Quartermaster's Department, his quick, comprehensive grasp of complex details, and the indomitable energy and industry with which he carried out his duties make him rank among the ablest of Quartermasters General.
		General Greene was inducted into the Quartermaster Hall of Fame in 1989.
	www.qmfound.com /MG_Nathanael_Greene.htm (836 words)

	Historic Preservation - Information about Civil War Cemeteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In his annual report of 1866, the Quartermaster General stated that a design had been adopted for a small cast iron monument, to be protected from rust by a coating of zinc, to have in raised letters cast in the solid the name, rank, regiment, and company of each soldier or officer.
		In his 1868 report, Quartermaster General Meigs again rejected a recommendation in favor of the stone slab, but under authority of the Act of 1867, the Secretary of War specified that the markers should be of white marble or granite.
		In general, all fifty-nine cemeteries administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs that meet the date of establishment requirement also possess the same physical characteristics, such as lodges, fences, decorative entrance gates, and headstones, and generally maintain integrity of the original fabric.
	www.va.gov /facmgt/historic/civilwar.asp (7019 words)

	Lieutenant General Andrew T. McNamara, USA
		Upon transferring to the Quartermaster Corps in 1937, he served as assistant quartermaster of the Fifth Infantry Division during its pre-war Louisiana maneuvers in 1940, as assistant construction quartermaster at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and as supply officer, Quartermaster Training Command, Fort Lee, Virginia.
		He later became Quartermaster of the II Corps in North Africa, where he was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptional service in providing food, gasoline, and other quartermaster supplies to fast-moving U.S. forces in Tunisia and for adapting quartermaster transportation facilities to move both troops and ammunition.
		General McNamara was named Quartermaster of the First Army in September 1943, winning the Bronze Star Medal for his part in planning quartermaster support for the invasion of Normandy, and the Distinguished Service Medal for directing quartermaster operations of the First Army during its drive across France, Belgium, and Germany.
	www.dla.mil /history/directors/mcnamara.htm (815 words)

	Organization of the Quartermaster's Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Unlike Mifflin, Quartermaster General Greene was generally with Washington's army in the field; his headquarters staff included, in addition to a wagonmaster general and a commissary general of forage, a deputy quartermaster general, various clerks, and an auditor of accounts.
		By 1780 the Quartermaster's Department employed almost 3,000 people-mostly stationed in the Middle and Eastern Departments and with Washington's army-at an estimated monthly payroll of 407,583 dollars exclusive of the commissions paid the Quartermaster General, the two assistant quartermasters general, the commissary general of forage, and the purchasing deputy quartermasters general.
		The Quartermaster General was authorized to appoint one commissary of forage and one wagonmaster for the main army, deputies for each separate army, and such foragemasters, assistants, conductors, clerks, and laborers as were required.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/RevWar/risch/chpt-2.htm (14680 words)

	Rufus Ingalls, Major General, United States Army
		General Rufus Ingalls was born at Denmark, Oxford County, Maine on August 23, 1819.
		General Ingalls served as the Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac from 1862 to 1864 and thereafter as the Chief Quartermaster for all the armies operating around Richmond until the end of the war.
		General Ingalls died in New York City on January 15, 1893, at the age of 73.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /ingalls.htm (485 words)

	NJDARM: Archives Collection Guides: Department of Defense, Adjutant General's Office (Revolutionary War), Quartermaster ...
		The Quartermaster General was responsible for transporting and delivering supplies, establishing the order of battle, regulating the marches and arranging camps.
		The issuing section of the department was completely eliminated, leaving the Commissary General with one assistant at the department's headquarters and one assistant to deal with the states who refused to furnish their quotas.
		It was a period of transition in the Commissary's department and chaos in the Quartermaster's department.
	www.njarchives.org /links/guides/sdea1014.html (2255 words)

	Lieutenant General Edmund Gregory - Quartermaster General 1940-1946
		General Gregory was an instructor for the New York National Guard in New York City 1924-27.
		He the served in the Office of Quartermaster General from June 1937 to April 1, 1940 when he was appointed as the Quartermaster General with the rank of Major General.
		As Quartermaster General during World War II, General Gregory was responsible for the development, procurement, distribution of billions of dollars worth of equipment and supplies.
	www.qmfound.com /LTG_Edmund_Gregory.htm (555 words)

	The Army Green Uniform - March 1968 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Quartermaster Corps objected that this would leave soldiers without an adequate combat uniform and the Army would be as unprepared for emergency as it was in World War II (10).
		Further, the general appearance of the raincoat was unsatisfactory: the untreated outside discolored when it became wet; the soft, lightweight fabric clung to the wearer's legs when he walked, and the coat puckered at the seams.
		The Quartermaster Corps had applied Quarpel to field and combat clothing and the results confirmed their hopes that the treatment could provide a rain garment which was efficiently water-repellent, washable and comfortable.
	www.qmfound.com /Army_Green_Uniform.htm (8186 words)

	Quartermaster Corps
		The Quartermaster Corps arranges for or provide supplies; materiel management, distribution, procurement and field services to support and sustain soldiers, units and their equipage in peace and war.
		Of the 118,625 soldiers in Quartermaster units in the year 2000, 73,733 of these or 62 percent are in the Reserve Component.
		Quartermaster Corps missions have undergone enormous growth and numerous changes over the years, as supply and service functions were added or reassigned.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/qm.htm (1625 words)

	US Army Quartermaster Center & School
		From 1818 to 1860, the Quartermaster General was BG Thomas Sidney Jesup, a daring leader and able administrator who did much to enhance the Corps' reputation.
		During his 42-year tenure as head of the Quartermaster Department, he instituted an improved system of property accountability and experimented with new modes of transportation, including the use of canal boats in the east and camel caravans in the desert southwest, and worked some of the earliest railroads.
		In 1950, the Quartermaster Corps moved swiftly to supply the United States and their UN allies sent to defend South Korea from the Communist North.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/usaqmcs.htm (847 words)

	Henry G. Sharpe, Major General, United States Army
		The Quartermaster Corps and the War Department generally were unprepared for World War I. The supply bureaus within the Quartermaster Corps were eager to procure and ship as quickly as possible the enormous quantities of supplies for which they were responsible.
		On December 15, 1917, a War Council was formed consisting of the Secretary of War, the Assistant Secretary of War, the Quartermaster General, the Chief of Artillery, the Chief of Ordnance, the Judge Advocate General, and the Chief of Staff.
		In June 1918, General Sharpe was relieved from duty with the War Council and assigned to the command of the Southeastern Department.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /hgsharpe.htm (1062 words)

	Regimental History: Quartermaster's Department
		The Quartermaster's Department provides the means of transportation by land and water for troops and materials of war for the army.
		In this branch cognizance is taken of such matters as relate To the personnel of the officers of the Quartermaster's Department, their assignment to stations, furnishing official bonds, etc., and to matters which pertain individually to clerks and employés in the office of the Quartermaster General and of the Quartermaster's Department at large.
		These general depots of the Quartermasters' Department are established in different sections of the country for the collection, manufacture and preservation of quartermasters' supplies, until they are required for distribution to the army.
	abuffalosoldier.com /qmduty.htm (1321 words)

	Quartermaster Department
		The Quartermaster Department was organized in 1775, when the Continental Congress authorized a Quartermaster General and a deputy to serve the army.
		Following the War of 1812, the Secretary of War obtained permission to reorganize the Army, and one of his acts was to establish a permanent Quartermaster General with a department in Washington.
		In the fiscal year of 1844, only by the order of the Secretary of War were the Quartermasters at Philadelphia and New Orleans permitted to subscribe to one newspaper so that they might obtain shipping lists and current prices, knowledge of which was essential to the execution of their duties.
	www.nps.gov /fosc/qm_info1.htm (641 words)

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		A conservative Republican, Ashcroft was Missouri state auditor (1975-76) and attorney general (1976-85) before being twice elected to the post of governor (1985-93).
		In the war he was (1861-63) quartermaster general of New York State.
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	General M.C Meigs
		The Quartermaster General realized that the President was a dangerously discouraged man. He realized, too, that if he made the wrong kind of reply, or if he indicated, by so much as the slight shading of a phrase, that he shared the fears of his Commander-in-Chief, the results would be catastrophic.
		What the general did not say, however, was that the war became a very personal matter to him after his son, Captain John R. Meigs, was killed at Harrisonburg, Virginia, in October 1864, less than two years after his graduation from West Point.
		They knew that the Quartermaster General was behind them all the way, and not a few of them were indebted to him for the stars or eagles which they wore.
	www.meigs.org /mcmeigs.htm (2899 words)

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		Whereas under the Republic the Adjutant General was subservient to the Secretary of War, under statehood the position was elevated to that of head of all military departments.
		The position of Adjutant General was itself reestablished by the Militia Law of February 14, 1860, by which act he also assumed the duties of Quartermaster General and Ordnance Officer of the State.
		Quartermaster records are arranged alphabetically by county, and therein chronologically; the monthly account book is arranged alphabetically by company.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tslac/30027.xml (5441 words)

	Joeseph Johnston Biography
		With the staff rank of brigadier general, he had been the national army's quartermaster general for almost a year when he quit on April 22, 1861.
		Having been appointed quartermaster general on June 28, 1860, he remained in the service until after the secession of his native state.
		The next month Johnston became one of five men advanced to the grade of full general-all Confederate generals wore the same insignia of rank, three stars in a wreath-but was not pleased with the relative ranking of the five.
	www.civilwarhome.com /joejohnston.htm (1053 words)

	National Cemetery - Chatanooga, TN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		GENERAL: I have the honor to transmit herewith, for publication, lists of Union Soldiers interred in the National Cemeteries of Stone's River, Chatanooga, and Knoxville, Tennessee, with a preface, &c., by Brevet Major E. Whitman, A. V., in charge of the mortuary records of the Department of the Tennessee.
		GENERAL: I have the honor to forwardd herewith lists of Union Soldiers interred in the National Cemeteries at Chatanooga, Stone's River, and Knoxville, tennessee, with a brief history of each by the officers in charge of the respective cemeteries.
		Frequently the lists kept by hospital stewards and quartermasters' clerks, intended to be correct, have been rendered of comparatively little value from barbarous spelling and bad or careless penmanship.
	home.mem.net /~dalrympl/Chattanooga.html (411 words)

	American Revolution Round Table Program Webpage
		Washington achieved this not by pandering to the troops — as was often the course taken by politically appointed commanders of provincial units -- but by demonstrating his commitment to manage the army efficiently, attending to endless administrative details, and sharing the hardships of the winter encampment.
		The speaker noted that historians have generally shied away from telling the story of the American inland naval operations as, for the most part, they usually resulted in tactical defeats in contrast to the few spectacular ventures of American seamen engaged in attacking British trade on the open seas.
		General Montgomery, the American commander who was killed at Quebec in 1777, would had been the American commander in in the Northern Theater to have met the British advance.
	www.xenophongroup.com /patriot/arrt/arrtprgm.htm (15838 words)

	Jean Lafitte NHP: Historic Resource Study (Chapter 13 Endnotes)
		General Correspondence National and Post Cemeteries, Chalmette, File 692; and, Second Lieutenant Isaac O. Shelby to Quartermaster General, May 27, 1876.
		Contract between Quartermaster General and James Freret, August 11, 1880.
		Gilliss to Quartermaster of the Army, November 29, 1889.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/jela/hrs13n.htm (1013 words)

	American Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Instead, Carrington was assigned the position of Chief of Quartermaster Department for Greene's army.
		The mission was performed and the information obtained came of great use to General Greene in his eventual retreat from Cornwallis which became known as "the Race to the Dan".
		Carrington was a part of Washington's army though Greene still retained him as Quartermaster General of the Southern Department.
	www.nps.gov /colo/Ythanout/Carringtonbio.htm (249 words)

	NARA - Guide to Federal Records - Records of the office of the Quartermaster General [OQMG]
		Records of Colonel Edmund B. Whitman relating to quartermaster functions performed in conjunction with the identification of Union war dead and the subsequent establishment and maintenance of national cemeteries, 1863-69.
		Abstracts of disbursements by quartermasters at Army Reserve Depots, New Cumberland, PA, 1917-20 (in Philadelphia); East Columbus, OH, 1917-20 (in Chicago); Fort Riley, KS, 1917-20 (in Kansas City); and Camp Shelby, MS, 1917-20 (in Atlanta).
		Textual Records: General correspondence, consisting of letters sent, 1906-12; subject correspondence, 1906-12, with abstracts of letters received; correspondence arranged by geographical location, 1909-15, with abstracts of letters received; and correspondence arranged by name of cemetery, 1907-12.
	www.archives.gov /research/guide-fed-records/groups/092.html?template=print (8631 words)

	Nathaniel Greene - Biography - Rhode Island Postal History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		General Greene was defeated at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina on March 15, 1781, however the British troops were so weakened that General Cornwallis abandoned his plan to conquer North Carolina.
		There is also evidence that when Greene served as Quartermaster General he was in secret partnership with Jeremiah Wadsworth, the Commissary General of Purchases.
		General Nathanael Greene died on June 19, 1786 in Mulberry Grove, Georgia.
	rhodeisland-philatelic.com /rhodeisland/armynavy4.htm (692 words)

	Army Quartermaster Museum
		Since 1957 the Quartermaster Museum has preserved the history and heritage of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, the Army's oldest logistic branch.
		For more than two centuries Quartermaster soldiers have fed, clothed and equipped the United States Army.
		To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the Quartermaster Corps from its birth in 1775 to the present.
	www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil (297 words)

	artstore.ca - Quartermaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		SoldierCity is the ideal place to shop for QuarterMaster products - offering 1000's of items - including shirts, caps, flags, jackets, and more in an easy to use online catalog.
		Following is the official list of American military personnel killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom since Jan. 1, 2005 as of 3:50 p.m.
		A year ago, seven members of the 475th Quartermaster Group based in Farrell, Mercer County, were in Fort Benning, Ga., training for deployment to Iraq.
	www.artstore.ca /Quartermaster/reference/search (181 words)

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