Good ordnance sergeants are hard to come by.

In 1863, he was transferred to the 59th Virginia Infantry, as an ordnance sergeant.

All eyes swung to the regimental ordnance sergeant.

If I had this weapon and the ordnance sergeant that one, whose chances would you gentlemen like better?

Later in the war, during the battle for Petersburg, Meyers was appointed acting ordnance sergeant.

The War Department still stationed an ordnance sergeant at the fort to maintain its artillery pieces as late as the 1870s.

Next in the series was "Ram," which the ordnance sergeant did with a couple of sharp strokes before returning the ramrod to its tube.

Often an ordnance sergeant acting as a caretaker was the only person stationed at the fort.

It was garrisoned by 6 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance sergeant, and 256 men.