Brigade-major

Brigade-major is a military staff-officer who exercises duties, in a brigade, analogous to those of the adjutant of a regiment. When regiments or battalions are brigaded, a brigade-major is appointed as staff-officer to the brigadier. He superintends all correspondence, having a regular office and staff of clerks, issues orders from the brigadier, keeps the roll-ster or roster of duties, inspects guards and pickets, and directs exercises and evolutions. In the British army he is either appointed for five years, as at the camps of exercise, or holds the appointment only so long as the troops are brigaded, afterwards reverting to regimental duty, as is the case on active service and during autumn manoeuvres.