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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter VI (search)
ozen—of the Senate were known to be favorable to the confirmation; but this small minority had control of the Military Committee, and were consequently able to delay any report of the case to the Senate, and thus to thwart the President's wishes. The matter stood thus for nearly a month, and seemed no nearer solution than at first, when a despatch was received in Washington from General Grant, then commanding the Military Division of the Mississippi, saying it was necessary to relieve General Foster, on account of ill-health, from the command of the Department and Army of the Ohio, and to appoint a successor. Upon being asked whom he wanted for that command, Grant replied: Either McPherson or Schofield. Among the changes then known in Washington to be in the near future was Grant's elevation to the command of all the armies, to be naturally followed by Sherman's succession to that of the Division of the Mississippi, and McPherson's to that of the Army of the Tennessee. But Gran
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter VII (search)
n Sherman's memoirs faulty organization of Sherman's army McPherson's task at Resaca McPherson's character example of the working of a faulty system. I arrived at Knoxville, Tennessee, on February 8, 1864, and the next day relieved General John G. Foster. The troops then about Knoxville were the Ninth Corps, two divisions of the Twenty-third, and about one thousand cavalry and two divisions of the Fourth Corps; the latter belonged to the Department of the Cumberland, but had been left wir, and other articles to gladden the hearts of hungry soldiers. The Confederate army under Longstreet still remained in East Tennessee. A movement had recently been made by our troops, under the immediate command of General John G. Parke (General Foster being too lame to take the field in person), to drive Longstreet out. But the movement had failed, the troops returning to Knoxville with the loss of considerable material. In consequence of this, much anxiety was felt in Washington regardin
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
, S. commanding, 61, 64, 65; Herron commanding, 64 Army of the Ohio, the, Gen. Foster relieved by S. in command of, 109, 110; condition at time of S.'s assuming cnted to command, 425-430; Miles commanding, 494 Department of the Ohio, the, Foster commanding, 109; Foster relieved by S., 109, 110; troops from, in East TennesseFoster relieved by S., 109, 110; troops from, in East Tennessee, 191; records of, quoted, 209 Department of the Potomac, S. assigned to command the, 394 Department of the West, the, Harney commanding, 32, 33; Lyon succeedsardment of, 18, 33, 234 Fort Wadsworth, N. Y., artillery practice at, 458 Foster, Maj.-Gen. John G., commanding the Department of the Ohio, 109; sickness and re543; commanding Military Division of the Mississippi, 109; reports relief of Gen. Foster, and asks for a successor, 109; predilection for McPherson, 109; suggests S. at St. Louis, 107; misrepresented to the President by Washburne, 107; succeeds Foster in command of the Department and Army of the Ohio, 109, 110, 113; last intervie