The Life of John Kalb Major General in the Revolutionary Army
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subsistence, its quartermaster, its wagon- master, its commissary of forage, and each of these again has his deputies. Each general, again, is entitled to a special commissary of subsistence and three commissaries of forage. All these men rank as officers, and really have nothing to do. LIFE OF KALB. 141 My blacksmith is a captain ! The very numerous assistant- quartermasters are for the most part men of no military edu- cation whatever, in many cases ordinary hucksters, hut al- ways colonels. ...The same rank is held by the contractors- general and their agents (foumisseur general et facteur gin- . eral). It is safe to accost every man as a colonel who talks to me with familiarity; the officers of a lower grade are in- variably more modest. In a word, the army teems with colonels. The quartermasters-general provide quarters for the commander-in-chief and for themselves, but for nobody else. The other generals, even some of the officers, take their quarters where and as they please and can.
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