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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 342 4 Browse Search
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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter V (search)
e said: The promptness with which you sent troops to General Grant gave great satisfaction here; and by the President himself, in a letter to the Hon. Charles D. Drake and others, committee, dated October 5, 1863, in which he wrote: Few things have been so grateful to my anxious feelings as when, in June last, the local force in Missouri aided General Schofield to so promptly send a large general force to the relief of General Grant, then investing Vicksburg and menaced from without by General Johnston. It would have been impossible for me to send away more than a small part of those troops if I had not been able to replace them by Missouri militia. This General Curtis had probably been unable to do because of the unfortunate antagonism between him and the State government; and perhaps this much ought to be said in explanation of his apparently selfish policy of retaining so many idle troops in Missouri. For my part, I could see neither necessity nor excuse for quarreling with th
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter VI (search)
e away, and supply its place by bringing other forces from the field, where they are urgently needed, seems to me very extraordinary. Whence shall they come? Shall they be withdrawn from Banks, or Grant, or Steele, or Rosecrans? Few things have been so grateful to my anxious feelings as when, in June last, the local force in Missouri aided General Schofield to so promptly send a large general force to the relief of General Grant, then investing Vicksburg and menaced from without by General Johnston. Was this all wrong? Should the enrolled militia then have been broken up, and General Herron kept from Grant to police Missouri? So far from finding cause to object, I confess to a sympathy for whatever relieves our general force in Missouri, and allows it to serve elsewhere. I, therefore, as at present advised, cannot attempt the destruction of the enrolled militia of Missouri. I may add that, the force being under the national military control, it is also within the proclamation
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter VII (search)
essee during the summer. He must join Lee or Johnston before the opening of the summer campaign. Iidge was virtually as unassailable as that of Johnston behind it. The only weak point of our positioforce large enough to hold its ground against Johnston's whole army could have been put upon the rain what Sherman expected. Indeed, the fate of Johnston's army might perhaps have been decided then ais expectations in the first movement against Johnston. It seems at least probable that at the beto hold their ground against the main body of Johnston's army; and this must have been done in a sinposition as far east as the Connasauga River, Johnston could have passed round him in the night. Itnight to accomplish the object of cutting off Johnston's retreat. The case was analogous to that of entire Army of the Cumberland on the road in Johnston's rear and thus cut off his retreat, would happosition, and there intrenched. That night Johnston abandoned his lines. An inspection of the en[6 more...]
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter VIII (search)
This General Hooker well knew. But the Sandtown Road leading to our rear, on which Cox's division had been posted until Johnston's attack made it necessary to close him up on Hascall, was now less strongly guarded. I believe that General Hooker had conceived the idea, as indicated by his despatch to Sherman, that Johnston had drawn his main force from around Kenesaw, and was about to strike our extreme right. I recollect that I was all the time on the watch for such a blow, but relied upon myMy own opinion and McPherson's were decidedly the contrary. In the final movement which resulted in the withdrawal of Johnston's army from Kenesaw, the Army of the Tennessee passed by the right flank of my infantry line along the famous Sandtown Rrike directly at his flank and rear. Such a movement, it was urged, at Dalton, Kenesaw, or Atlanta would have compelled Johnston to fight a battle on equal terms with one half of Sherman's army, while he had to hold his parapets against the other ha
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter IX (search)
Chapter IX The final blow at Atlanta Johnston's untried plan of resistance Hood's faulty move holding the Pivot of the position Anecdotes of the men inot be quite sure of. Some tine after the war, that very able commander General Joseph E. Johnston told me that in his judgment Sherman's operations in Hood's rear ought not to have caused the evacuation of Atlanta; that he (Johnston), when in command, had anticipated such a movement, and had prepared, or intended to prepare, ty one of them so thoroughly that it could not be repaired in time to replenish Johnston's supplies in Atlanta. Here is presented a question well worthy of the career may be the final judgment upon that question, it seems perfectly clear that Johnston's plan of defense ought at least to have been tried by his successor. If Hoodant to force the enemy east, by Spring Place, into the barren mountains, where Johnston would have been compelled to go if McPherson's move on Resaca in May had been
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter X (search)
that a bridge be laid over the Harpeth the necessity of standing ground at Franklin Hood's formidable attack serious error of two brigades of the rear guard brilliant services of the reserve yellow fever averted Hood's assaults repulsed Johnston's criticism of Hood the advantage of continuing the retreat to Nashville. in the afternoon of November 28 I received information that the enemy's cavalry had forced the crossing of Duck River above Columbia, and driven our cavalry back; and, name the present surgeon-general of the army, George M. Sternberg. Yet how many of the noblest soldiers of humanity have given their lives in that cause! Hood's assault at Franklin has been severely criticized. Even so able a man as General J. E. Johnston characterizes it as a useless butchery. These criticisms are founded upon a misapprehension of the facts, and are essentially erroneous. Hood must have been fully aware of our relative weakness in numbers at Franklin, and of the probab
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XII (search)
oad, a little in rear of me. My advance-guard sent back to me an Atlanta paper containing an account of the visit of President Davis, and the order relieving General Johnston and assigning General Hood to the command of the army. General Sherman erroneously says one of General Thomas's staff officers brought him that paper. Genenciple that the highest duty of a commander is to anticipate and provide for every possible contingency of war, so as to eliminate what is called chance. Both Johnston and Hood refer in their narratives to the earnest desire of their commander-in-chief, President Davis, that the army they in succession commanded should undertake an aggressive campaign. Johnston demonstrated that, under the circumstances existing while he was in command, such an undertaking could not possibly have been successful. Hood tried it under far more favorable circumstances, and yet he failed, as had every former like attempt of the Confederate armies. The result in every cas
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XIV (search)
the appearance of still fighting for a lost cause rather than be the first to admit by his own action that it was indeed lost. It is now well known that the feeling among the Southern people and that of some of the highest officers of the Confederate government made it impossible for any officer of their army to admit in any public way the failure of the Confederacy until after the enforced surrender of Lee's army in Virginia. Indeed, it required much moral courage on the part of General Johnston voluntarily to enter into a capitulation even after the capture of Lee. This is unquestionably the explanation of Hood's desperate act in waiting in front of Nashville and inviting the destruction or capture of his army. The crushing blow he there received was like a death-blow delivered by a giant full of strength and vigor upon a gladiator already beaten and reduced in strength nearly to exhaustion. Sherman was not very far wrong when he said that the battle of Nashville was fought a
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVII (search)
was not war. Sherman was not a man to be left out, no matter what might happen. But Sherman's good fortune was almost equal to his strategy and his skill in marching an army. Although, as fate would have it, he did not have a chance to assist in the capture of Lee, Thomas had failed to obey his instructions to pursue Hood into the Gulf States, whereby the fragments of that broken and dispirited army, as Thomas well called it, were gathered together, under their old, able commander, General Johnston, and appeared in Sherman's front to oppose his northward march, and finally to capitulate to him at Bennett's House in North Carolina. The remnant of that army which Sherman had disdained to pursue into Alabama or Mississippi had traveled a thousand miles to surrender to him! No story of fiction could be more romantic than that fact of real war history. It was not necessary for Sherman to produce his letter of November 6, 1864; but I have quoted from it here very largely to show th
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVIII (search)
Chapter XVIII Transfer of the Twenty third Corps to North Carolina Sherman's plan of marching to the rear of Lee the surrender of J. E. Johnston's army authorship of the approved terms of surrender political reconstruction Sherman's genius contrast between Grant and Sherman Halleck's characteristics his attempt to supplant Grant personal feeling in battle the Scars of War. upon the termination of the campaign of 1864 in Tennessee, General Grant ordered me, with the Twenty-third Corps, to the coast of North Carolina, via Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Washington, and the sea. Under the direction of the Assistant Secretary of War, Charles A. Dana, and the personal management of Colonel Lewis B. Parsons of the quartermaster's department, that movement was made without any necessity for the exercise of direction or control on my part, in respect to routes or otherwise. I enjoyed very much being a simple passenger on that comfortable journey, one of the most r
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