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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXVIII (search)
my, Washington, July 7, 1894. brigadier-General Otis, Commanding Department of the Columbia, Vancouver Barracks, Washington: The order of the President sent you this morning by telegraph is the same in substance as one sent last night to General Merritt, the purpose being to extend military protection over the entire line of the Northern Pacific Railroad from St. Paul to Puget Sound. In the movement of the troop-trains along the line of the road in the execution of this order, the Department of Justice will furnish a sufficient force of marshals to make arrests and hold prisoners subject to the orders of the United States courts. You will please concert with General Merritt by direct correspondence the necessary exchanges of guards upon moving trains at the military posts in your department and in his, nearest to each other, so that the troops may return to their proper stations without unnecessary delay. J. M. Schofield, Major-General Commanding. by the President o
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
483 Meade, Maj.-Gen. George G., commanding Division of the Atlantic, 429; entertains Grant, Sherman, and S. at Philadelphia, 429; president of Fairmount Park commission, 429; designated to command the Division of the Pacific, 429; death, 430 Medals of honor, 474, 475 Meigs, Q.-M.-Gen. Montgomery C., on the civil war, 365; favors S.'s plan of War Department reform, 479 Memphis, Tenn., Fremont's plan of campaign below, 49; Hatch sends troops to Nashville from, 205, 206 Merritt, Maj.-Gen., Wesley, protection of the pacific railroads, 511 Mexican war, Thomas's service in, 189; experience of army officers in, 514, 515 Mexico, violation of the Monroe Doctrine in, 276; French intervention in, 377 et seq., 543; recognition of the republic by the United States, 379, 381; preparations for military intervention in, 379-383; France demands recognition of the empire in, 384; Napoleon prepares for evacuation of, 389-391, 393; the end of the Franco-Austrian intrigues, 393; the fa