(a) The Civil Secretariat.
(b) The Military Secretariat, which had charge of the Map, and took down Napoleon’s dictated Orders.
(c) Several Generals, Aides de Camp to the Emperor, available for special missions.
(d) Orderly Officers to carry Orders.
(e) Equerries.
2. Berthier’s Staff comprised:
(a) The Civil Secretariat.
(b) The Military Secretariat.
(c) A dozen Aides de Camp.
Berthier’s duty was to embody Napoleon’s instructions in Orders, and transmit them.
3. The Staff proper, which comprised a score of officers, and was divided into three branches:
(a) Correspondence, orders, movements, states, intelligence.
(b) Camps, billets, police, subsistence, hospitals.
(c) Laws, decrees, conscription, prisoners.
UNITED STATES STAFF IN THE CIVIL WAR
An example of organization of a Head-Quarters Staff in a great war may be found in the Civil War, in the United States. When General Grant was Commander-in-Chief, his Staff consisted of nineteen Officers:
| Chief of Staff | 1 |
| A. G. Department | 3 |
| Q.M.G. Department | 4 |
| Provost-Marshals | 2 |
| Military Secretaries | 2 |
| A.D.C.’s | 7 |