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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XI (search)
er at least, if not that of the Tennessee, as Sherman had assured Grant, would have been securely h or guards. I knew nothing at that time of Sherman's instructions to Thomas, and little about thnta to Chattanooga or Dalton, withdrawn after Sherman started on his march, and convalescents, men ct about those 7000 men belonging to his [General Sherman's] column, but does not give any reason wm of all that had gone before, even including Sherman's division of his army between himself and ThFranklin, the following instructions from General Sherman on October 31 are important: You must uniood catch you in detail. I bid., p. 536. Sherman thus gave the most emphatic warning against ts also important, especially as showing that Sherman expected the two corps to be increased to 50,85. On the same day Thomas telegraphed to Sherman in reply to the above: It is, and always Before the above correspondence between General Sherman and General Thomas was known to me I had [6 more...]
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXII (search)
the War Department and the headquarters of the army. The order which was issued assigning General Sherman to command the entire army, staff as well as line, was prepared by me under General Grant'ssoon yielded to the opposite views, and caused the order to be amended accordingly. That General Sherman then entertained views of his authority which were too broad, as General Grant had also dontent efforts to deprive the general-in-chief of the little authority which had been left to General Sherman. General Sheridan had, with his usual gallantry and confidence, renewed the contest, but haermined to profit so far as possible by the unsatisfactory experience of Generals Scott, Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan—at least so far as to avoid further attempts to accomplish the impossible, which g little or nothing. In fact, long study of the subject, at the instance of Generals Grant and Sherman, earnest efforts to champion their views, and knowledge of the causes of their failure, had led
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIII (search)
I recollect rightly, a large assembly, in Philadelphia, of the Society of the Army of the Potomac. General Grant and General Sherman were there, and we met at an early dinner at the house of General Meade, who had been designated by General Sherman General Sherman to succeed General Thomas in command of the Division of the Pacific. After dinner General Meade took me to drive through Fairmount Park, in which he was greatly interested as president of the commission having it in charge. He explained to me the which I had a year before gladly relinquished in favor of General Thomas. Soon after my arrival in San Francisco, General Sherman met me there, and we went together, by sea, to Oregon, where we met General Canby, then commanding the Department ofy opposed by General Canby, commanding the department; by me, who then commanded the Division of the Pacific; and by General Sherman, commanding the army. No such order could be obtained in the regular way. Resort was had to an innocent old army re
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIV (search)
ot mine, it was to know the facts. But General Sherman had other reasons, some of them very cogeresident Grant's support in that regard. General Sherman also wished me to revise the army regulat were doubtless the principal reasons for General Sherman's anxiety to have me accept the assignmenneral of the army, in direct violation of General Sherman's promise that I should be subject to noaction arose not simply from ignorance of General Sherman's promise, of which the adjutant-general ed me that no such purpose existed. In General Sherman's absence, General Alfred H. Terry was chfrom West Point was effected earlier than General Sherman or I had anticipated. Before the end of West Point, N. Y., December 14, 1880. General Sherman, Washington, D. C. my dear General: I hatever kind. I know perfectly well that General Sherman was governed by a generous desire to givending expressed in my correspondence with General Sherman of May 3, 1881, I returned from Europe at[12 more...]
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
o report to, 149,156; doubts the validity of Sherman's order, 156; battle of Jonesboroa, 157, 158;; returns to the War Office, 412; Grant's and Sherman's attempts to oust, 412,413; S.'s views on hi guards near, 197; as base of supplies for Sherman, 304; Fourth Corps ordered to, 317 Stickne2, 254, 300, 303 et seq., 313, 340, 343, 348; Sherman sends troops into, 163-165; operations and di; his opinion of Gen. Palmer, 151: opinion of Sherman's proposed movement against Atlanta, 153; bat Hood's strength, 191, 308; his cavalry, 192; Sherman's instructions to, 193,194,197-200; wisdom of6; ability to defeat Beauregard, 288; assures Sherman of his ability to cope with Hood, 288; ordersNashville, 327; failure to destroy Hood, 335; Sherman's knowledge of his character, 336; possibilit87, 220-225; Dec. 15, 265, 281; Dec. 16, 247: Sherman, W. T., Oct. 19, 1864, 191; Oct. 20, 317, 318 in, 8, 234; the duty of a commander in, 234; Sherman's theory of, 317; the art of, 407 et seq.; sc[7 more...]