In the 1790s Vermont created the positions of adjutant general, inspector general and quartermaster general. The key leader was Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs. He served as quartermaster general from 1926 to 1930. Infantry Erich Ludendorff, who held the title "Erster Generalquartiermeister" (First Quartermaster General). He was the and the Acting Quartermaster General of the United States Army. During the First World War he was appointed as adjutant general and quartermaster general. He served in the Quartermaster General Department and was discharged in 1815 as a captain. Instead, he resumed his duties as Quartermaster General and served in western New York. In August 1780, the Continental Congress elected Pickering Quartermaster General. In this capacity, Shoup served under Major General William P. T. Hill, the Quartermaster General. Major General Karl von Grolman, was Quartermaster General. The current Quartermaster General is Brigadier General Douglas M. McBride. On 1 October 1951, Thimayya was appointed Quartermaster General. He served as quartermaster general of the New York Militia during the American Civil War. The Quartermaster General and the Secretary of War then approved Commerford's request.