It was all well enough where Bucketts was concerned; he had been quartermaster for years and no one expected anything else, but there were those in the regiment who hoped there might be a change in the Adjutancy.
"Marion's Faith."
Charles King
Of course, he had heard by that time just why Truscott had resigned and refused to re-accept the position; he also knew that the colonel had said that he could give it to no officer who had not served with them in the rough days in Arizona; and, moreover, that he had once declared that offering the Adjutancy to a second lieutenant was equivalent to saying that no first lieutenant was capable of performing the duties.
"Marion's Faith."
Charles King
At Mount Vernon George must have heard much of fighting as a lad, and when the ill health of Lawrence compelled resignation of command of the district militia, the younger brother succeeded to the Adjutancy.
"The True George Washington [10th Ed.]"
Paul Leicester Ford