BRIGADE-MAJOR is a particular officer appointed for that purpose only in camp. His business is to go every day to head-quarters to receive orders from the adjutant-general; to write exactly what is dictated to him; to give the orders, at the place appointed for that purpose, to the different majors or adjutants of the regiments which compose that brigade, and regulate with them the number of officers and men that each is to furnish for the duty of the army, and 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 details of 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 has to send 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; and he must also mention 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.