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commissary of subsistence
Commissary Com"mis*sa*ry, n.; pl. Commissaries. [LL. commissarius, fr. L. commissus, p. p. of committere to commit, intrust to. See Commit.] 1. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner. Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. --Donne. 2. (Eccl.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. --Ayliffe. 3. (Mil.) (a) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters. (b) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence. [U. S.] Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. --W. Irving Commissary general, an officer in charge of some special department of army service; as: (a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and transport department, or of the ordnance store department. [Eng.] (b) The commissary general of subsistence. [U. S.] Commissary general of subsistence (Mil. U. S.), the head of the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase and issue of provisions for the army.

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- ****igned a captain as ****istant commissary of subsistence; each division had a commissary of subsistence as part of the commander's staff, although the...
- a Commissary General of Subsistence (CGS) with the rank of colonel, an ****istant CGS with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and ten commissaries of subsistence...
- promoted to major, Staff, Commissary of Subsistence and on 9 May to lieutenant colonel and Chief, Commissary of Subsistence, U.S. Volunteers. Bliss was...
- Army's first Commissary General of Subsistence, holding the office from 1818 to 1861. He served as an infantry officer during the War of 1812, then briefly...
- ****igned as a commissary of subsistence on June 23, 1874. (Commissaries of subsistence were responsible for providing food supplies to units of the Army.)...
- ****istant quartermaster/ordnance officer, an ****istant commissary of subsistence (all with the rank of Captain) and a surgeon. However, there were no enlisted...
- of Volunteers and ****istant Quartermaster. He was later tapped to serve on the staff of Major General Ambrose E. Burnside as ****istant Commissary of Subsistence...
- ****istant commissary of subsistence in 1861; at Indianapolis, Indiana, as ****istant quartermaster, 1861–1863; at Washington, D.C., as quartermaster of the cavalry...
- the Commissary General of Subsistence. He served in this capacity from June 22, 1904, to October 8, 1905. He was commissioned Commissary General of Subsistence...
- quartermaster and commissary of subsistence; Ward Hill Lamon, Lincoln's longtime bodyguard and friend and U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia; and Dr...