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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 15: (search)
by Sherman's protestations, by the refusal of the Senate to confirm the brevet, and by the fear that he would damage himself if he insisted further. Doubtless, too, he suspected that Sherman would not prove very serviceable, if forced so much against his will into the uncoveted position. On the 19th of February, therefore, the President informed Sherman that he would not be ordered to Washington. Two days afterward, without consulting the Senate, Johnson removed Stanton and appointed Lorenzo Thomas, the Adjutant-General of the Army, Secretary of War ad interim. The same day a resolution was offered in the House of Representatives that Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. On the 24th of February the resolution was adopted. Points suggested by General Sherman in answer to the President's letter to General Grant, of January 31, 1866: Acknowledge receipt formally. Regret that matters of importance should have tran
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 16: (search)
Chapter 16: The impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Grant had originally been very much averse to the proposition to impeach the President. Suggestions of this proceeding had been made as early as 1866, and in May of that year Grant wrote to Washburne, who was then in Europe: But little is heard now about impeachment. It is sincerely to be hoped that we will not, unless something occurs hereafter to fully justify it. It was not until Johnson's removal of Stanton and the appointment of Lorenzo Thomas as Secretary of War, and after his own violent differences with the President, that Grant looked with favor on this extreme measure. But when the motion for impeachment was finally passed he heartily approved it. He took the liveliest interest in the proceedings, and though he preserved a proper reticence in his public utterances, he did not scruple with those in his confidence to express his opinion that the action of Congress was entirely justified. He refused, however, to visit the
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
of Adjutant General Cooper and Assistant Adj't Gen. Withers.--It was rumored that Qr. Master Gen. Johnston, of Virginia, was about to resign, but he said this morning that the time for such a course had not yet arrived. The resignation of Gen.Cooper was accompanied with the regret that he was appointed from, and is a native of, New York. The Southern Confederacy is making overtures to some of the best officers in the service, and tendering them lucrative offices. Chas. Jones, late of the Register's Office, has left for the Southern capital, to take office there. The large crowd at the State Department this morning was much disappointed at the absence of Secretary Seward, who is detained at home by sickness. [second Dispatch.] Colonel Lorenzo Thomas has been appointed Adjutant General in place of Col. Cooper. Secretary Seward is quite unwell to-day. No official intercourse has yet taken place between the Confederacy Commissioners and the President.
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Army of the Southern Confederacy. (search)
strict,N. C. It is reported that Green Adams, of Ky., has been appointed Sixth Auditor.-- A. G. Hall, of Washington, special Mail agent for Maryland and Virginia. It is estimated that there are between five and ten thousand applications for appointment connected with the Post Office Department. Nineteen clerks are daily engaged in opening and registering letters. Situations in other departments are as numerously sought for. The Senate made the following confirmations Saturday: Col. Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant General; Maj. Townsend, sen., Assistant; W. A. Nichols, D. C. Buell, Theo. Talbott, B. C. Drum and J. B. Fry, Assistants, with the rank of Captain. It is not ascertained yet that any order has been issued by the Presidential authorities in regard to the evacuation of Fort Sumter, an event, however, which is considered will soon occur, from circumstances beyond Executive control; but, from what is actually known, a formal surrender of the fort is not anticipated. Go
The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
ess now 600 able-bodied men in camp. These, added to those who are suffering uselessly in the prisons and jails of New Orleans and vicinity, and feeding from the general stock of provisions, would make a good regiment of 1,000 men, who might contribute as much to the preservation of law and good order as a regiment of Caucasians, and probably much more. Now a mere burden, they might become a beneficent element of governmental power. J. W. P. Camp Parapet, La. Aug. 2, 1862. Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant General, Washington, D. C.: Sir: Finding it impossible to serve in this department without doing violence to my convictions of right and public necessity, I respectfully tender you the resignation of my commission as an officer of the army of the United States, and request as early an acknowledgment of its acceptance as conveniently possible. I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. W. Phelps, Brigadier-General. Headq'rs Depa
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