Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-06-17

rrnuecttd with the troops. ESch of these I'll
| VISIONS la, its Chief, Suh-Ohiei, and Person
-l. which attend to tn different branches with
IN r.rt,in limits.
Hi-grer .HU CR1ARI2 Atom "r TUE GENERAL
STAFF
/. M The nHSsidH army.
An ea,ly 10 tho time Of tho Great Etecto'
inef- existed u Great General Qdartermaster
G!inE. consisting, it is true, OF only q limited
humber OF officers. Frederick the Great in
creased tAis by appointing a few off,
rcrs from his suite to be QH~arternidste's ;
"a which. during the " seyen years war" ton
additional officers. detached from their regi-
ment-- for this service, were united. The
s,,i, re rl r~cryicr of this staff was very limit
eI inr. in addition To conducting the muster
r"I!- nn'l cofresTundon:e. it extended chiefly
"niy II the m~arkins Of camps and seledtlon Of
ln.Il-'=. tuder tue style OF warfare OF thai
t.Y ~i.en the army, as we'll on tha march as
e" 10 field Of battle, constituted always a
A:r,iu ~ che haudd of the Commander, there
wa- ~ .~eoesDity for General Staff Officers, in
tho present eenHe Of the term, to lead it
When the great King wished to impose special
tsss, on Individual columns, IS occurred first
IN the last battles Of tho SEVEN years war"
a. kunersdorf and Torgau, he gave them RI
Aeaisn 10 conduct them. e
Reconnaissance Of the country and surveys
We're effected through Engineer Officers; and
~atI4its relating to maps in general de7olved on
the special, separate institution, the bureau
If ,f@siGh
-, the outbreak aF tL3 Bararian war for
Ia: ril:resti"a (lI'S). u psrceptille want OF
zap Ale ~nfiinsrs iur filling tue Qnartermastsr.
q. n'raI Stuff manifested itself; and conse-
qiun''y Frederick William, II, made it his
'irst caro- To roorranizo it, in the form OF the
Q!nnr nrmnstsr- General Staff of the infantry
AMI c.ValrY. At the head Of it Was, as chief,
n QmIerma4ter't ieacratt;; and subordinate to
him Quartsrmasters, Quarter" er-Lieuten.
ants and Assistants. &c. Won Decker, Practl.
cal Science of the General Stat, Berlin, 1880,
XIV.
Al;er ,ha -swty instituted organization Of
lie Gsuer,l SAT- in France at the commencs-
mont Vi the Fronch revolution, in 100, by
winch tho entire administrative branch FIR
conducting and managing the army was at
t,:iyi t. sLo Gsaeral Staff, the Pru5sian Gen.
eral Staff WAS partially TRANSFORMER; and par.
ii~"IIarIy under General Ruechel, 1901 to
$40. who united the bnreau Of design to his
department: while the name Qauhsrmayter
Een''uf !%lf WAS retained.
This consisted at the outbreak Of the un-
lo':"nat" War with France, l8OG, Of
'!n ,sterma5ier.uener rs Chief,
a Cs'"'L.; as Quartermasters-
Stat OHicsrs, rs QaartermaStar Lieu
GCip'a'ns. tenants,
IL lieuienanis, as Assistants,
% Oflioers'0 of the Staff, which were all dis.
among the armies 10 Thuringia, 30
that the corps Of L'Estocqus on the river
Weiohssl originally had no General Staff OFF,
cers.
These officers conducted the sscon-
noissAncas and surveys, made tho plans
for operations and the dispositions for
combat aud, with the sudden over
throw OF almost the entire Prussisn land, this
young institution fell again into inactivity
uni stagnation; until, after the peace Of Tilsit,
u reorganization Of the army took place.
la 1910 this corps received a permanent or.
Ranizatlon. under the. name Of the General
stay The officers in it henoeforwspd passed
trom c'nnsation with the regiments definitely
iato the General Stat; its number yss in.
and many of the French sdministra-
tvs regulations were initiated, while there
still remained, temporarily, until 1873,
Quartsrrnastsr in the administration Of It.
In 1872 there we're with the corps Of York
Russia, (2l,000 msn) 90 officers Of superior
and inferior rank from the General Staff
in addition to 9 Adjutants, viz:
A-With the Commanding General:
Chief of the General Stat,
l Qusrtsrmaster,
4 Lisutsnants of the General staff.
'B-WIth the second commander of the
I Major.
Captain, Of the General STAFF.
l Lieutenant, II
! a.5er, n. Dc Adiutaata.