Another question about brevet ranks

[Stryker65]

Did brevet ranks have to be "activated" in order to apply? I've seen multiple instances now of brevet-brigadiers serving under ordinary colonels and brevet-MGs serving under ordinary BGs -- when coupled with the General Orders I've seen of "BG ___ is assigned to duty according to his brevet rank", does this mean that the brevet rank didn't apply until an order "activated" the brevet? It would explain how a lieutenant colonel brevetted BG could still serve under an ordinary colonel without a brevet.

 

[Dan Kohli]

Don't forget that general officer commissions aren't associated with regiments.

 

[Trooper "D"]

Keep guessing, you'll figure it out eventually.

Yeah. Maybe. That reply presented itself and I had to follow through.
Cheers!