"Ordnance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... regard to loyalists and tories, ii. 92; the attention of, drawn to affairs in Canada, ii. 93; committee appointed by, for the purpose of maintaining a European correspondence, ii. 124; Washington invited to the floor of—recommendations of Washington adopted by, ii. 159; "Board of War and Ordnance" appointed by, ii. 160; resolution of, in relation to the claims of Generals Schuyler and Gates, ii. 248; measures taken by, for a more permanent organization of the army, ii. 305; adjourned to Baltimore—almost unlimited powers granted by, to ...
— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing
... numbered by millions, across the channel, and everything was thrown freely open to her. She soon found out what the great supply bases, on which the British army in France rests, really mean, made up of the Army Ordnance, Army Service, Army Medical, Railroad, Motor, and Transport, and she found it a deeply interesting study, "whose work has involved the labor of some of the best brains in the army," and she learned the organizing power that has gone to make the career ...
— The War on All Fronts: England's Effort - Letters to an American Friend • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... speedily for temporary purposes when needed; the former can not. The second is the necessity of reopening promotion in the staff corps of the Army. Particularly is this necessity felt in the Medical, Pay, and Ordnance departments. ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... accompanying the President to the ground to see experiments with new ordnance in the Navy Yard, in 1862, were diverted by his taking up a ship-carpenter's ax from its nick in a spar, and holding it out by the end of the handle; a feat that none of ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams
... desire of the occupants to shield themselves in this manner from public view. When I first knew the landmark it was occupied by Thomas Green, an old-time resident of the District. He married, as his second wife, Ann Corbin Lomax, a daughter of Major Mann Page Lomax of the Ordnance Department of the Army. During the Civil War, Mr. Green's sympathies were with the South, but he took no active part in the conflict. One of his idiosyncrasies was to pick up, on and around his spacious grounds, ...
— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur
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