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This resolution not only prevented the cattle from being driven to General Bragg, but also decided the Commissaries not to return immediately.

From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Duke, Basil Wilson

A large party of Commissaries of Subsistence were with us, sent by General Bragg to collect supplies north of the Cumberland and bring them to Tullahoma, escorted by one of Morgan's regiments.

From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Duke, Basil Wilson

Commissaries, accompanied by armed soldiers, were, in the name of the law, to enter every dwelling.

From Madame Roland, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Some thought it was a new costume which had been sanctioned by the supreme Soviet for its Commissaries; others that it had been planned especially for the marriage.

From The Book of All-Power by Wallace, Edgar

“I suppose, sayd one of the Commissaries, that you be not ignoraunte of the Circumstances of the Kynges Proclamation.”

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William