| This colonelcy was an honorary title which he held by custom rather than by law. |
| William J. Bryan accepted the colonelcy in a Nebraska regiment. |
| In 1830 he was appointed to the colonelcy of the 14th Light Dragoons. |
| On returning he was gazetted to the colonelcy of the 5th Dragoons. |
| He graduated to the Colonelcy while in the service, and was brevetted as Brigadier General on his return home. |
| As to the colonelcy of the militia, the lord-lieutenant has my resignation. |