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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 15: (search)
Chapter 15: The captured cotton at Savannah character of the attack on Secretary Stanton the Jeff. Davis gold. Attacks upon dead men may fairly be called one of the features of General Sherman's Memoirs. Thomas, McPherson, and Stanton, with others less prominent, are in turn rudely and unjustly assailed in their graves. In writing history it would have been not only allowable for an honorable author to set down exact truth in regard to these noted actors in the war, even thoham titles of British and other private claimants. They should all be disregarded; and it ought not to be turned over to any Treasury agent, but held by the military authorities until a special order of the department is given for the transfer. Thomas has been nominated for Major-General. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. The part relating to cotton was sent by General Grant to General Sherman, and was thus answered by the latter: headquarters Military division of the Mississi
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 17: (search)
upied by my command. The last and most obnoxious feature of General Halleck's dispatch is wherein he goes out of his way, and advises that my subordinates, Generals Thomas, Stoneman, and Wilson, should be instructed not to obey Sherman commands. This is too much, and I turn from the subject with feelings too strong for words but one other point in General Sherman's official complaint that I deem it necessary to notice. I refer to the suggestion made to you in regard to orders to Generals Thomas and Wilson for preventing the escape of Davis and his Cabinet. Although these officers were under the nominal command of General Sherman, yet after he left Aartment and has been practised for years. I have transmitted hundreds of orders in this way, and General Sherman was cognizant of the fact. The movements of Generals Thomas, Stoneman, Wilson, A. J. Smith, etc., while within General Sherman's general command, have been directed in this way for more than six months. In suggesting t
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 20: (search)
rant (who ordered his movement) to Halleck and Thomas, informed these officers that in certain conticords show that Grant had confidence enough in Thomas' army to order it-before Sherman was within s failed to perform; and further, that when General Thomas insisted upon giving orders for an attack reater part of his troops, Grant assented, and Thomas actually accomplished that part of the battle assaulted precipices in front of Dalton, with Thomas' and Schofield's armies, before he allowed McP a cost of two thousand men, claiming now that Thomas, McPherson, and Schofield agreed with him thatwas necessary, when the records clearly reveal Thomas' stern dissatisfaction, and a bold extension tified Halleck of it on the 15th of that month, Thomas on the 19th, and that in February Thomas was aThomas was arranging the details of the move as far as Atlanta. The records show further, that on the 10th of Se his March to the Sea, and finding fault with Thomas, who, though crippled in all ways by Sherman,
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