John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army

[562] 33, 34,36, 37; anti-Yankee feeling, 37; Lyon's operations in the interior, 37 et seq.; plight of the Union troops, 38; Fremont's plan of campaign, 49; Fremont takes the field in central, 51; convention declares for the Union, 54; organization of a provisional government, and plots to overthrow it, 54, 73, 86, 87; partizan factions, the ‘charcoals’ and ‘claybanks,’ 54-60, 69, 71 et seq., 77, 85-109, 543; disloyalty in, 57; importance of combining with Arkansas and Tennessee in a department, 60, 61; Confederate movements, 61; political intrigue, 66; S. ordered back to, 66; the question of emancipation, 69, 74, 103; the militia of, strengthens S's hands, 71; the question of slavery, 71 et seq., 90, 92, 94, 95, 99; the State convention, 71 et seq., 90, 92, 100; enlistment of colored troops, 73, 90, 92, 99; question of confiscation, 73, 92; downfall of the Republican party, 77; return of rebel soldiers from Vicksburg to, 77, 78; the ‘Border Guards,’ 78; brigandage, and border and guerrilla warfare, 78 et seq., 84, 89, 92, 234, 358, 359; proposed measures of retaliation by Kansas on, 79-81, 83, 84; the militia forbidden to cross into Kansas, 82, 83, 97; ‘revolutionists’ in, 86, 87; friends of the government in, 87, 90, 91; elections, 88, 92, 94, 98, 100-102, 105-107; charges of misrule in, against S., 89-91; Curtis's strength in Kansas and, 90; S.'s strength in Kansas and, 90; death of secession and end of rebel power, 91, 101, 102, 105; necessity of maintaining a Federal force in, 91, 92; anti-Schofield delegation to Washington from, 91, 93-99, 108; restoration of peace, 92, 105, 106; sufferings of Union men, 94; the compound questions of Union and slavery in, 94, 95; features of Federal administration in, 96; corruption in, 96; raids from Arkansas into, 101; misnamed ‘loyalty’ in, 101; revulsion of feeling in favor of S., 101, 102, 424, 427, 428; allegations to the War Department concerning arming of disloyal persons, 104-106; election of a U. S. senator, 107; the President's political standing in, 108, 109; Halleck commanding in, 111; Gen. Rosecrans appointed to command in, 112; reinforcements for Thomas from, 284, 285, 290, 321, 325; Halleck's and Pope's plan of clearing rebels from, 358, 359

Missouri River, the, military operations on, 37; guerrilla warfare on, 358, 359

Missouri United States Reserve Corps, the, organization of, 35

Mobile, Ala., proposed movements against, 253, 312, 317, 332; contemplated change of base to, 303; cutting through the South at, 337

Mobile and Ohio Railroad, proposed movement against, from Vicksburg, 199; anticipated movement by Hood on, 315

Modoc Indians, their trials, outbreak, and repression, 435-438

Moltke, Field-Marshal H. C. B. von, one secret of his success, 7; on preparation for war, 365, 366

Money, the value of, 533, 534

Monroe Doctrine, violation of, in Mexico, 276, 543; the maintenance of, 381; its purpose explained to Napoleon III., 389; Seward's adhesion to, 393

Montana, obstruction of railroads???, 512.

Montgomery, Ala., cutting through the South at, 337

Morristown, Kan., Gen's Ewing and Lane at, 79

Morristown, Tenn., Longstreet retreats toward, 115; S. advances toward, 115; preparations for attacking Longstreet at, 116; held by S., 116

Mosquito Lagoon, S. at, 19

Moss, Col., reported expulsion of Union families by, 93

Motley, John L., U. S. Minister at Vienna, 385

Mount Pleasant Turnpike, Tenn., military movements on, 204

Mower, Maj.-Gen. Joseph A., to reinforce Thomas, 319

Murfreesboro, Tenn., S. reports for duty at, 66; possibilities of Hood's getting between Nashville and, 185; detention of Granger at, 197; concentration at, and proposed movements of troops to, 205-207, 215; proposed movement to Brentwood from, 223; blunder of sending pontoons to, 249; strategic importance of, 260

Muscle Shoals, Ala., Hood crosses the Tennessee near, 167, 318

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Napoleon, Prince, gives dinner at the Palais Royal, 389; interviews with S., 388-391

Napoleon III., intervention in Mexico, 377 et seq.; S.'s mission to, 382 et seq.; critical situation of his government, 387; a just retribution for, 387; address to the, French legislature, 389, 390; prepares for evacuation of Mexico, 389-391, 393; audacity of his logic in the Mexican affair, 390; seeks friendship of the United States, 390; S. presented to, 392; interest in American military affairs, 392

Nashville, Tenn., opening of communication with Chattanooga, 114; battle of, 160, 197, 198, 239, 240, 242-251, 254, 258-275, 279 et seq., 290-296, 327; Thomas commanding at, holding, and concentrating in; his strength, etc., 161, 163, 166, 192-198, 220, 223, 226, 231, 236, 252, 254, 259, 261, 283-285, 288, 301, 302, 319, 320, 328; S. ordered to fall back to, the retreat, and interviews with Thomas, 165, 166, 224, 226, 227, 288-290; reinforcements ordered to and expected at, 164, 165, 168, 170, 171, 184, 185, 190-199, 206-208, 225, 284, 285, 290, 307, 308, 315, 319-322, 325, 326, 330, 344; possibilities of an earlier retreat to, 185; the quartermaster's division in, 192; arrival of Steedman's troops at, 195, 254; Thomas's delays at, 197, 236 et seq., 243, 249, 260, 261, 271, 294-296; Thomas's attitude at, explained to Grant, 198; A. J. Smith's delay in reaching, 212, 213, 217, 218, 223, 301, 325; Thomas unprepared for action at, 220 et seq.; arrival of A. J. Smith at, 220, 221, 254; Wilson ordered to fall back to, 224; delays of telegraphic communication with Franklin, 224; general feeling concerning immediate action against Hood, 237; Grant's determination to take personal command at, 238-240; Logan ordered to take command at, 239, 240; climatic conditions at, 249; movement front Duck River to, 251; Hood's strength at, and his actual and possible movements against, 258-262, 300, 301, 316 (see also Hood); Sherman on the battle