Definition of "adjutant general" []

• An adjutant of a unit having a general staff. (noun)
• An officer in charge of the National Guard in one of the U.S. states. (noun)
• The chief administrative officer, a major general, of the U.S. Army. (noun)

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• "As he explained the matter to Congress in a letter written by his aide James Wilkinson, now adjutant general of the Northern Army:"
• "During 1758, he had served as adjutant general to General von Mayr, from whom he had learned the management of light infantry."
• "A battle-scarred veteran of British campaigns against the Spanish in Panama and Colombia, he was also a member of the House of Burgesses and adjutant general with the rank of major of the militia in his district, and he had married into the family of Lord Edward Fairfax, one of the chief proprietors of the region."