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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter I (search)
ew home, which left no time and little inclination for any kind of mischief. At sixteen years of age I spent three months in surveying public lands in the wilds of northern Wisconsin, and at seventeen taught district school in the little town of Oneco. By that time I had chosen the law as my profession, and was working hard to complete the preparatory studies at my own expense. The winter school term in Oneco having closed early in the spring of 1849, I returned to Freeport and resumed my Oneco having closed early in the spring of 1849, I returned to Freeport and resumed my struggle with Latin. Then an unforeseen event turned the course of my life. The young man who had been appointed to West Point from our district only a year or two before had failed to continue his course in the Military Academy. Thus a vacancy occurred just at the close of Mr. Thomas J. Turner's term in Congress. There was no time for applications or for consultation. He must select another candidate to enter the following June, or leave the place to be filled by his successor. Fortunate
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
Okeechobee, Lake, military operations at, 23-25 Olley's Creek, Cox forces the passage of, 441 Olney, Atty.-Gen. Richard, report of, cited, 493; approves S.'s order of May 25, 1894, 509 Omaha, military station at, 454; S. at, 509 Oneco, Wis., S. teaches school at, 2 One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteers, a young straggler from the, 155, 156 Opdycke, Maj.-Gen. Emerson, in battle of Franklin, 177-181, 229; the meed of praise due to, 179-181 Oregon, visit of Sherman on the inspiration of the Bible, 8; perturbed over his son's affluence, 16, 17 Schofield, Lieut.-Gen. John M. (elsewhere in this Index referred to as S.), birth, 1; early education, 1, 2; farm work, 2; surveyor in Wisconsin, 2; schoolmaster at Oneco, 2; returns to Freeport, 2; chooses the law as a profession, 2; opportunity to enter the Military Academy at West Point, 2; raising funds for West Point, 2, 3; fondness and ability for mathematics, 2, 10; entrance at the Military Academy, 3; a p