I must continue until they made me a major-general.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

He became colonel in 1798 and major-general in 1799.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

About the same time I was promoted to major-general volunteers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Lincoln the commission of major-general in the United States army.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

Fifteenth Corps was commanded by its senior major-general present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

He was commissioned major-general in the Maryland Militia in 1795.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

For this and other important services he was made a major-general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

He was the senior major-general after myself within the department.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Lieutenant-General Grant to the major-general commanding this army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Engineers, as to his conduct while major-general commanding the Fifth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Terry had been nominated for major-general, but had not been confirmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

He resigned his commission of major-general on the 5th day of December.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

A Tuesday World News article incorrectly referred to him as a major-general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corrections] Reference

A few days before it had been arranged that the major-general, his Divisional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

He now gained a national reputation, and was made a major-general in the United.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

It was at this time that I received my appointment as a major-general of Volunteers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

General McClellan had been made a major-general and had his headquarters at Cincinnati.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

A major-general, who left his leg on a later field, carried his company into this fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

Montrose and his Irish major-general to have any time for their usual autumn's recreation.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

In old militia times he was in command of the forces of the state as its only major-general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

The French government rewarded him by appointing him major-general and governor of the island.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference

Wahid has promised to investigate and prosecute abuses all the way up to the major-general level.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promise Of Trouble] Reference

After presiding at an anti-war meeting he went over to Lincoln, when he was made a major-general.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

Jersey, and were commanded by Major Israel Putnam, afterward major-general in the United States army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference

Logan entered the service himself as colonel of a regiment and rapidly rose to the rank of major-general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Breckenridge was a major-general in the Confederate army, and might sink his character of Secretary of War.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

George Crook -- now major-general -- was the quartermaster and commissary of subsistence of the expedition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The major-general commanding offers his sincere thanks for their endurance of hardships heretofore unknown in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference

Baird served also at the Cape of Good Hope as a brigadier-general, and he returned to India as a major-general in 1798.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

William of Orange, in Holland, had been made a major-general and put in charge of troops in Virginia against the French.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

The major-general commanding thinks that you had better draw in your cavalry, so as to secure the protection of the trains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Green, now promoted to major-general, was placed in command of all the horse, with Brigadiers Bee, Major, and Bagby under him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

He was prompt, however, to volunteer when the rebellion broke out, and soon rose to the rank of major-general in the Union army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

General Saxton to a brevet major-general, with enlarged powers; and, report says, put General Howard in place of General Foster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference

The war broke out about this time, which prevented his opening an office, and he was commissioned a colonel, finally a major-general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

The arrival on horseback of the major-general commanding the Division attacking in this portion of the front turned the conversation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

At the outbreak of the war this captain was by the governor of Ohio commissioned as major-general, and a few days later he received from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

His success there was most brilliant, and won for him the rank of brigadier-general in the regular army and of major-general of volunteers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference