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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XV (search)
vision of the Pacific, which I had before proposed for him, but which the President had designated for me, under the impression that General Thomas did not want it. A few days after that we went to our respective commands—General Thomas to San Francisco, and I to Fort Leavenworth. From that time we had no official or personal relations or correspondence during the short remainder of his life. In respect to what was made public during that brief period, I long since refused to believe thaville, in December, 1864, and afterward, General Thomas appears to have been made the victim of a conspiracy to poison his mind by false accusations against his senior subordinate. A press report of a conversation said to have taken place in San Francisco in the year 1869, between General Thomas and General Halleck, gave some indication of the effect which had been produced on the mind of General Thomas. From that time forward there appeared frequent indications of the secret operations of th
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIII (search)
longer be an Indian frontier in our beautiful country. But soon after my pickets were put out on the plains, there came the sad news of the sudden death, in San Francisco, of my old commander, General George H. Thomas. His body was brought east to Troy, New York, for interment. All his old companions, including President Grante, it fell to my lot to take the Division of the Pacific, 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 of the Columbia. We ascendeCity, we returned to St. Louis, where I had some work to complete as president of a board on tactics and small arms, upon the completion of which I returned to San Francisco. In the summer of 1871, after the great earthquake of that year, I made a trip across the Sierra to Camp Independence, which had been destroyed, to consider
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIV (search)
propriety of it. Advise me of your decision as early as you can—certainly this week. You will be subject to no supervision except by the usual board of visitors and the general commanding the army. W. T. Sherman, General. (Telegram.) San Francisco, Cal., March 29, 1876. General Sherman, Washington, D. C.: I appreciate the importance of the superintendency of the academy, and the compliment paid me by the President, Secretary of War, and yourself in desiring me to accept it. Under the cce, and now I am sure that the whole country will be satisfied. . . . I am not yet resolved on my own course of action, but will be governed by events to occur in this week. W. T. Sherman, General. headquarters Mil. Div. Of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal., March 30, 1876. General Sherman, etc., Washington, D. C. my dear General: I was not taken entirely by surprise by your despatch relative to the West Point superintendency. General Grant mentioned the subject to me soon after the war,
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
n of relative rank between Stanley and S., 160; conversation with Thomas at San Francisco, 293; his territorial strategy, 358, 359; plan of clearing Missouri of rebeort to S., 93 Sandtown Road, Ga., military operations on, 133, 136 San Francisco, Cal., S. commanding at, 188, 430; Thomas commanding at, 278; conversation betondence between Thomas and, filed at the War Department, 188; commanding at San Francisco, 188, 430; commanding the Twenty-third Corps, 190; ignorance of Thomas's ac of the Pacific, 278; cessation of personal relations with S., 278; goes to San Francisco, 278; S.'s views on the battles of Franklin and Nashville, 278 et seq.; omi 429; his honor, truth, and justice, 292, 296; conversation with Halleck at San Francisco, 293; alleged attempt by S. to supplant, 293-297; conspiracy to poison his s in Tennessee, 348; calmness under stress, 362; S. relinquishes command at San Francisco in favor of, 430 Correspondence with: Grant, U. S., 252: Halleck, Nov. 28,