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California Military Department

The Military Department includes the office of the Adjutant General, the California National Guard, the California State Military Reserve, the California Cadet Corps, and the Naval Militia.

Edwin Alexander Forbes

Brigadier General Edwin Alexander Forbes, who served as the Adjutant General of California from 4 January 1911 to 18 June 1915, is known as the Father of the California Cadet Corps.

Jonathan Haskell

Jonathan Haskell (March 19, 1755 – December 14, 1814) was an officer in the United States Army who served as acting Adjutant General and acting Inspector General of the U.S. Army in 1796.

Levi T. Griffin

On February 24, 1864, he was commissioned as Captain, and on September 15 was assigned as Acting Assistant Adjutant General of the Second Cavalry Division.

Lunsford L. Lomax

Assigned to the prestigious 2nd Cavalry regiment, Lomax fought on the frontier and served in Bleeding Kansas during the years immediately preceding the conflict, Lomax resigned from the army in April 1861, and shortly thereafter accepted a captain's commission in Virginia state militia and was assigned to Joseph E. Johnston's staff as assistant adjutant general.

Martin Flint

Martin Flint (January 12, 1782 -- February 27, 1855) was a Vermont political and military figure who served in the Vermont House of Representatives and as Adjutant General of the Vermont Militia.

Michael Rudolph

In February 1793, he was made acting Adjutant General and acting Inspector General of the U.S. Army.

Michael Rudolph (1758–1795), an officer in the United States Army, served as acting Adjutant General and acting Inspector General of the U.S. Army in 1793.

Richard C. Nash

Major General Nash remained commander of the 34th Infantry Division until November 2010, when Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty appointed him as Adjutant General of the Minnesota National Guard.


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Alfred Pleasonton

Alfred's much older brother, Augustus, attended the United States Military Academy and served as Assistant Adjutant General and paymaster of the state of Pennsylvania; his career direction obviously affected his younger brother's and both boys were assured nomination to the Academy by their father's fame from the War of 1812.

Anti-union violence

Adjutant General Sherman Bell and Colorado Governor James Peabody knew about the plan.

Bill Enyart

:For the Illinois National Guard adjutant general and politician, see William Enyart.

Colville Wemyss

On 1 October 1935 he was promoted Colonel and appointed an Assistant Adjutant General at the War Office in London.

Connecticut Adjutant General

The Adjutant General is required to have a minimum of fifteen years of commissioned service in the Armed Forces of the United States and have obtained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel or Commander.

Dale Cemetery

Edwin A. McAlpin (1848-1917), president of the D.H. McAlpin & Co tobacco company, builder of the Hotel McAlpin, the largest hotel in the world, and Adjutant General of the State of New York

David Fay

David Fay (December 13, 1761 -- June 5, 1827) was a Vermont Judge and militia officer who served on the Vermont Supreme Court and as Adjutant General of the Vermont Militia.

David Henley

In that same year, he served a major under General William Heath, and briefly as an adjutant general under General Joseph Spencer.

David W. Gay

He continued to serve as Adjutant General under Governor John G. Rowland until May 31, 1999 when he retired.

Donald Burdick

In 1983, Governor Joe Frank Harris appointed Burdick as Georgia’s Assistant Adjutant General – Army, and he was promoted to Brigadier General.

Donald P. Dunbar

Following a tour of duty in the Iraq War, Dunbar was named Adjutant General of Wisconsin by Jim Doyle in 2007.

Douglas Brownrigg

After the War he became Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the War Office and then became a General Staff Officer at the Royal Military College Sandhurst.

Eleazer D. Wood

He was appointed acting adjutant-general to General William Henry Harrison in October 1813 and was transferred to the northern army in 1814.

Flag of the Green Mountain Boys

The regimental flag, known also as a "battle flag" or war flag, accompanies the unit on battle assignments and is physically handed to the commander of the regiment, as described by former Vermont National Guard Adjutant General Martha Rainville in an interview.

Frances Burney

She quickly became close to Gen. Alexandre D'Arblay, an artillery officer who had been adjutant-general to Lafayette, a hero of the French Revolution whose political views lay between those of Royalist and of Republicans.

Franklin Archibald Dick

He was assistant adjutant general to Nathaniel Lyon at Camp Jackson (the first Missouri Civil War incident); Missouri provost marshal general under Major General Samuel Curtis; law partner with Montgomery Blair at the Blair House in Washington D C after the Civil War.

Frederick Townsend

He was appointed brigadier general of 9th Brigade of the state militia in 1878 and adjutant general of the state in 1880 under Gov. Alonzo B. Cornell.

George K. Sanderson

Captain Sanderson was transferred to 33rd U.S. Infantry 21 Sept 1866 and served as Acting Assistant Adjutant-General (AAAG), on the staff of Brevet Major General Pope commanding, Third Military District, at Headquarters (Atlanta, Georgia).

Harvey M. Haakenson

Harvey M. Haakenson is a retired Brigadier General in the National Guard of the United States and former Deputy Adjutant General of the North Dakota Army National Guard.

Henry Frederick Cooke

He acted as Assistant Adjutant General to Sir Charles Stewart.

Hercules Robert Pakenham

He was promoted to a majority in the 7th West India regiment 30 Aug. 1810, remained with the Peninsular army, and was assistant adjutant-general of Picton's division up to the fall of Badajos, where he was severely wounded and received the Gold Cross for Busaco, Fuentes d'Onoro and Ciudad Rodrigo, and Badajos).

History of the Jews in Charleston, South Carolina

Among those who have held high office, however, have been Gen. E. W. Moise, adjutant-general of the state of South Carolina from 1876 to 1880, Franklin J. Moses, Sr. (born Israel Franklin Moses), who became chief justice of the South Carolina supreme court in 1868, and his son Franklin J. Moses, Jr., governor of South Carolina from 1872-74.

James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt

As adjutant-general he performed his duties efficiently during the weary months of waiting and sickness at Gallipoli and at Varna, and also at the battles of Alma and Inkerman.

James McKinley

James Fuller McKinley (1880–1941), U.S. Army officer and Adjutant General, 1933–1935

Jerome Anthony Watrous

During the war, he rose to become a sergeant, and briefly attained the rank of adjutant general of the Iron Brigade.

John Breckinridge Castleman

After Governor William Goebel was shot in 1900, Castleman was again appointed adjutant general of Kentucky and helped avoid conflicts in the fallout of the assassination.

London-Corbin Airport

The Kentucky National Guard constructed a readiness facility on the field in 2009 and was dedicated by Adjutant General Don Storm at opening.

Meridian Regional Airport

According to Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and State Adjutant General Harold Cross, these missions are to be a new Joint Cargo Aircraft mission and an Air Force War Fighting Headquarters.

Myles Deering

On December 10, 2010, Governor-elect Mary Fallin announced that she would retain General Deering in his position as Adjutant General.

Nikolai Obruchev

At this time he proposed reorganising the Main Staff into five directorates: First and Second Quartermaster Generals, Adjutant General, Military Communications and Military Topography.

Oregon Military Department

The Military Council, composed of the adjutant general and six to ten officers of the National Guard, operates as an advisory staff to the governor, in much the same way as the Joint Chiefs of Staff advise the President.

Peter T. Washburn

In October 1861, he was elected Adjutant General of Vermont, with the rank of Brigadier General, succeeding Horace Henry Baxter.

Phillips' Legion

The Legion fought in the Gettysburg Campaign and was mentioned in Brigadier General Wade Hampton's report to the Assistant Adjutant-General, dated August 13, 1863, as having helped repulse a July 2 Union attack between Hunterstown and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Raymond F. Rees

In August, 1994 Rees was again named Adjutant General of Oregon, by then Governor Barbara Roberts.

Beginning in 2009, Rees commenced another four-year term as Adjutant General, serving under both Governors Ted Kulongoski and John Kitzhaber.

Reginald M. Cram

He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Cavalry upon graduating from Norwich, and was assigned to the staff of Vermont’s Adjutant General.

Richard Nash

Major General Richard C. Nash, US Army, former commander of the 34th Infantry Division and current Adjutant General of the Minnesota National Guard

Ricky G. Adams

During his service, Adams has served as Deputy Assistant Commandant of the United States Army Field Artillery School, the Deputy Commanding General of Fort Sill, and as Assistant Adjutant General of the Oklahoma Army National Guard.

Sacramento Historic City Cemetery

Albert Maver Winn - Elected to the first City Council of Sacramento and chosen as President (ex officio Mayor), California State Adjutant General and founder of the Native Sons of the Golden West

Seán McCaughey

Born in Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, McCaughey was Adjutant-General of the IRA and Officer Commanding (O/C) of its Northern Command.

Soldier Support Institute

The Adjutant General School also includes the Bands Program, and The Army School of Music (see United States Armed Forces School of Music) currently located at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story (JEBLCFS,) Virginia.

St. Mary's Church, Chennai

Numerous memorial-plaques and monuments exist within the church of which two, that of Sir Barry Close, who was Adjutant General to Gen. George Harris at the Siege of Seringapatam, and gave his name to Closepet, and that of Lt. Col. Joseph Moorhouse, who was killed at the Siege of Bangalore, in the Third Anglo-Mysore War, would be of particular interest to the historian.

Stanley E. Clarke III

He has served in a number of leadership positions including Commander of the 160th Fighter Squadron, Commander of the 187th Fighter Wing, Deputy Director of the Air National Guard, Defense Attache in Turkey, Assistant Adjutant General of the Alabama National Guard, and Commander of the First Air Force.

T. J. Tarsney

During the Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894, Governor Waite, a 67-year-old Populist, dispatched 300 troops to the Cripple Creek area on March 18 under the command of Adjutant General Tarsney after the local sheriff had declared that the region was in chaos.

Timothy J. Kadavy

In November, 2007 Kadavy was selected for appointment as The Adjutant General of the Nebraska National Guard, succeeding Roger P. Lempke, and received a state promotion to Brigadier General.

United States Army Adjutant General School

Newly assigned officers and enlisted students to the Adjutant General Corp receive their training at Fort Jackson nearby Columbia, South Carolina.

Walther Bronsart von Schellendorff

Walther Franz Georg Bronsart von Schellendorff (21 December 1833, in Danzig – 13 December 1914, at Gut Marienhof, Amt Güstrow, Mecklenburg), Dr. jur. h.c., was a Prussian General of the Infantry à la suite, Adjutant-General to the Kaiser and King, and Prussian Minister of War.