brevet-brigadiers

Updated: May 3, 2025

So an army is but a larger police; and its official head is that plain man at the White House, who makes or unmakes, not merely brevet-brigadiers, but major-generals in command, who can by the stroke of the pen convert the most powerful man of the army into the most powerless.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Women and the Alphabet : A Series of Essays