Their ranks had nothing to do with their job title. A. C. Myers was QM General, but only held the rank of Colonel.Does anyone know why the CS quartermaster general was capped at Brigadier general yet the AG an inspector general S. Cooper was a full general.
Dave what I am wondering about is why the rank wasn't commensurate with the importance of the post.Their ranks had nothing to do with their job title. A. C. Myers was QM General, but only held the rank of Colonel.
That is something else I find curious why AG and IG posting weren't given to separate officers.The Adjutant-General was the professional head of the Confederate States Army (no Commanding General, General-in-Chief or official Chief of Staff yet) and the Confederacy made that clear in rank. Of course initially they had a Brigadier General for that but the holder (Cooper) was made the most senior of the three Brigadiers in their regular army. Meanwhile things might have been different if Cooper, who did double duty as Inspector-General, for some reason hadn´t been the only one on the jobs throughout the war.
That is something else I find curious why AG and IG posting weren't given to separate officers.
But who do you put in those positions.Well, in the combined function he clearly was Chief of Staff in all but name, which was rather true for the U.S. Adjutant General, too. Of course having that and separate posts would seem logical; making decisions easier for empowered officeholders instead of having to shoulder everything himself with his assistants having limited options and authority. But in my opinion laws and regulations, Congress, logic and Jefferson Davis seldomly got on one page.