Quartermaster-General's Department of the Confederate States

"The Quartermaster-General's Department is responsible for the logistics and supply of both the Army and the Navy. The Q/G Department runs and maintains the Army and Navy stores, as well as runs the military railways of the Confederacy."

- Alfred T. Leigh, the first Quartermaster-General of the Confederate States, describing the responsibility and activities of his department

The Quartermaster-General's Department of the Confederate States (Q/G Dept.) was a military department of the Confederate States of Earth, an alliance of Right-wing Conservative nation states of the planet Earth (Wardie1993) which separated from the Union of Earth States.

The Department was concerned with the logistics and supply of the C. S. Army and the Confederate States Navy. To this end, the Department ran and maintained the stores of the Army and Navy, as well as ran the military railway network of the Confederacy. There was some discussion about the Department taking over the operation of the cargo ships and transport aircraft from the C.S. Navy and the Confederate States Army Air Corps, though this never happened, the Navy and Air Corps maintaining jurisdiction over their own cargo ships and transport aircraft, respectively.

Formed shortly after the founding of the Confederacy, the Q/G Department was created to ease the burden of the Army and Navy having to divert their own forces to logistical concerns. The Department was ran overall by the Quartermaster-General of the Confederate States, who held a seat on the Confederate Cabinet.

Lower than the Quartermaster-General were the Quartermasters, who governed local logistics in their respective commands, each Quartermaster answered directly to the Quartermaster-General, and discussed matters concerning overall departmental strategy and logistical concerns with the Quartermaster-General and their fellow Quartermasters as part of the Quartermaster's Council. At first, there was one Quartermaster from each member nation of the Confederacy, however, after the Confederacy rapidly grew this system was viewed as obsolete, it was believed that having dozens of Quartermasters would make the department too bloated. As a result, multiple nations and territories were often united into a single jurisdiction. Following this reorganisation some positions including the "Quartermaster of the West", who oversaw the department's operations in the Western Colonies, and the "Quartermaster of the Northwest", who was concerned with running the department's affairs in the Northwest Peninsula, whose jurisdiction including the Zarkan Kingdom and the Kingdom of Westland.