Brigade-MAJOR, is a particular officer appointed for that purpose only in camp: he goes every day to headquarters to receive orders from the adjutant-general: there he writes exactly whatever is dictated to him: from thence he goes and gives the orders, at the place appointed for that purpose, to the different majors or
Major. adjutants of the regiments which compose that brigade, and regulates with them the number of officers and men which each are to furnish for the duty of the army; taking care to keep an exact roster, that one may not give more than another; and that each march in their tour: in short, the major of brigade is charged with the particular detail in his own brigade, in much the same way as the adjutant-general is charged with the general detail of the duty of the army. He sends every morning to the adjutant-general an exact return, by battalion and company, of the men of his brigade missing at the retreat, or a report expressing that none are absent: he also mentions the officers absent with or without leave.
As all orders pass through the hands of the majors of brigade, they have infinite occasions of making known their talents and exactness.