A brevet major serves and draws pay as a captain, and a brevet brigadier as colonel.
It may be mentioned, for the information of those unskilled in the technicalities of the military service, that the term brevet is used to a commission giving nominal rank higher than that for which pay is received.
They set dead upon Fairlie, our captain, a Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, and a C.
President Buchanan also took prompt measures; and on Monday night a detachment of eighty marines from the Washington navy-yard, under command of Brevet Colonel Robert E.
Barnes, who commanded the First Brigade in this battle, by his good conduct, earned promotion to Brevet Brigadier-General.
In the battle of Buena Vista, he was conspicuously engaged; so much so, that his services were rewarded by the brevet rank of colonel.
Promoted to First Sergeant and Brevet Second Lieutenant.
Great embarrassment has resulted from the effect upon rank in the Army heretofore given to brevet and staff commissions.
Under the directions of the War Department Brevet Captain Fremont, of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, has been employed since 1842 in exploring the country west of the Mississippi and beyond the Rocky Mountains.
Haidee hated terribly to go, but Val was firm, though she held out the promise of early liberation if Haidee would work well at French and try and pass her brevet simple.
He was in reality only a captain of engineers, though a brevet lieutenant-colonel in the army, when in February 1865 he returned home.
Gordon had already been awarded a brevet lieutenant-colonelcy in the Royal Engineers, so he was now made a Commander of the Bath; but he was as indifferent to English honours as to those of the Chinese.
Brevet Brigadier General Armistead, by order of the War Department, assumed the position from which General Taylor retired.
A: The avenue was at last opened by the signature of the President to the bill providing that brevet rank might be conferred on officers for gallant conduct in Indian warfare, but it came just too late.
For the main relief he sent out a column under Brevet Lieutenant-colonel Fetterman, who had just arrived at the fort, while he led in person a flanking party to cut off the Indians' retreat.
Instead, the section from the Rio Grande at El Paso to the Red River at Preston, Texas, was run by John Pope, brevet captain in the topographical engineers, in the spring of 1854.
Chapter XXVII At Fort Ridgeley The officer in command of the battery when it left Fort Ridgeley was Captain and Brevet Major John C.
He had won his brevetby gallant services in action at Monterey and Molino del Rey.
Major Lyman was afterwards honored with a brevet as Major, but I was only mentioned in routine official papers as wounded.
As soon as this matter came under the observation of the bureau, the facts in the case were represented to Brevet Major General J.
Veatch for his cordial assistance in aiding me to carry out the measures of the bureau, and also to Colonel Crandal and Lieutenant Colonel McLaughlin, post commandants, for valuable aid; and to Brevet Major General J.
The matter was submitted to Brevet Major General Hawkins, commanding western district of Louisiana, who issued an order prohibiting the parish police forces from arresting freedmen unless for positive offence against the law.
A second brevet had come his way in some inexplicable fashion, and he was now for some time past a lieutenant-colonel.
Nowadays, every staff officer who has been within sound of a skirmish, the wind blowing his way, gets his brevetas a matter of course.
Malicorne had asked Manicamp to ask a brevet of maid of honor of the Comte de Guiche; and the Comte de Guiche had asked this brevet of Monsieur, who had signed it without hesitation.
That you are riding out on a hunt for your brevet of duc and peer.
As to Montalais, as her sole reply, she drew the brevet from her pocket, and showed it to the old lady.
He had drawn from Malicorne, three days before, fifty pistoles, the price of the brevet obtained for Montalais.
Malicorne we know, had made the journey to Orleans in search of the brevet destined for Mademoiselle de Montalais, the arrival of which had produced such a strong feeling at the castle of Blois.
Brevet gave a start of surprise and looked at him from head to foot in terror.
Brevet looked at the prisoner, and then turned to the court.
Champmathieu no sooner arrived thanBrevet cries out, "Why, I know this man: he is an ex-convict.
Accompanying the expedition was John Pope, Brevet Captain of the Topographical Engineers.
To investigate conditions and to report upon what steps would be necessary to remove the cause of complaint, Brevet Major Samuel Woods, stationed at Fort Snelling, was ordered to proceed to the State of Iowa.
Brevet Major Fowle was ordered to march against them with two companies.
The report reads, "the service mourns the high-souled Scott, brevet lieutenant colonel 5th infantry".
And as the petite noblesse of France liked to take a better title and gayer armorials than belonged to them, so our lesser nobility and gentry are fond of using a brevet business-title considerably above the position they really fill.
In Grant's last campaign he opened the attack on the left at Quaker Road and White Oak Road, for which he received the brevet of Major-General.
