The Surgeon General of the United States Army is the senior-most officer of the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD). By policy, the Surgeon General (TSG) serves as Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) as well as head of the AMEDD. The surgeon general's office and staff are known as the Office of the Surgeon General (OTSG) and are located in Falls Church, Virginia.
The Department of the Gulf was a command of the United States Army in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.
James Madison Robertson was a career United States Army artillery officer who commanded the First Brigade of U.S. Horse Artillery during the American Civil War.
Daniel Parker made his career in the United States Department of War and the United States Army.
Abimael Youngs Nicoll was an officer in the United States Army who served as Adjutant General and acting Inspector General of the U.S. Army from 1807 to 1812.
Morgan Connor was an officer in the Continental Army who served as Adjutant General in 1777.
Henry De Butts was an officer in the United States Army who served as acting Adjutant General and acting Inspector General of the U.S. Army from 1792 to 1793.
Michael Rudolph (1758–1795), an officer in the United States Army, served as acting adjutant general and acting Inspector General of the U.S. Army in 1793.
Jonathan Haskell was an officer in the United States Army who served as acting Adjutant General and acting Inspector General of the U.S. Army in 1796. After the war he returned to farm in Belpre, Ohio.
John Pratt was an officer in the United States Army who served as acting Adjutant General of the U.S. Army from 1790 to 1791.
John Mills was an officer in the United States Army who served as acting Adjutant General and acting Inspector General of the U.S. Army from 1794 to 1796.
James Fuller McKinley was a career officer in the United States Army. He attained the rank of major general and served as Adjutant General of the United States Army from 1933 to 1935.
John Francis Weston was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during a raid on Confederate shipping. He was a brigadier general of United States Volunteers in the Spanish–American War. Weston retired from the U.S. regular army in 1909 as a major general. Having been assistant commissary general of subsistence and commissary general of subsistence from 1897 to 1905, including commissary general for the American forces in Cuba during the Spanish–American War, Weston finished his career as the highest ranking U.S. Army officer in the Philippines and, in the last year of his service, as commander of the Department of California.
Edmund Kirby was a United States Army artillery officer who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
William Orton Williams, called Orton Williams until he changed his name to Lawrence Williams Orton, was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War who, after being caught behind Union lines in a U.S. Army uniform, was executed as a spy.
The Office of the Inspector General of the United States Army (OTIG) is the agency tasked with investigating the United States Army. Its stated mission is to "provide impartial, objective and unbiased advice and oversight to the army through relevant, timely and thorough inspection, assistance, investigations, and training". The position of Inspector General (IG) has existed since 1777, when Thomas Conway was appointed, and the office has been reorganized many times, varied in size dramatically, and abolished on several occasions before being reinstated. In its early days, the inspectorate was frequently merged with, or proposed to be part of, the Adjutant General's department.
The Office of the Inspector General(OTIG) serves to "provide impartial, objective and unbiased advice and oversight to the Army through relevant, timely and thorough inspection, assistance, investigations, and training." The position has existed since 1777, when Thomas Conway was appointed the first inspector. The department was reorganized many times, and almost abolished on several occasions. In its early days, the department was frequently merged with, or proposed to be part of the Adjutant General. It expanded greatly after the American Civil War, to the point that it had around 2,000 officers in 1993. The current holder of the position is Donna W. Martin.
