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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 52 4 Browse Search
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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIV (search)
n this country. But the few opposite examples have been quite enough to cloud the life of every officer of high rank with the constant apprehension of an insult which he could neither submit to nor resent. Soon after the inauguration of President Garfield, the Division of the Gulf was broken up, and I was permitted to visit Europe, as I had requested in the preceding November, until the President should be pleased to assign me to a command according to my rank. (Telegram.) Washington,l France under the empire and under the republic. According to the understanding expressed in my correspondence with General Sherman of May 3, 1881, I returned from Europe at the end of a year, and reported for duty. But in the meantime President Garfield had been assassinated, and the bill then pending in Congress providing for the retirement of all officers at a fixed age was amended so as to make that age sixty-four years instead of sixty-two. Hence I continued to wait without protest un
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
itude on slavery and confiscation, 54, 58, 71 et seq.; raises special State militia, 55, 54; F. P. Blair's views as to his authority over the militia, 60; factional leader in Missouri, 69; antagonism between Curtis and, 71; relations between S. and, 71 et seq., 90; tenders and withdraws his resignation, 72, 74; letter to S., 72, 73; plot to seize and imprison him, 86; places the State militia under S.'s command, 88, 90, 95 Garber, Hezekiah H., friendship for S. at West Point, 3 Garfield, James Abram, election and inauguration, 447, 450; abolishes the Division of the Gulf, 451; assassination, 453 Garnett, Col. Robert S., commandant of cadets at West Point, 15 Gaylesburg, Ga., Sherman at, 326 Gaylesville, Ala., Sherman at, 318 General, the rank of, 538 Generals, as politicians, 355 Geologists, the God-hating, 9 Georgia, abandoned by Hood, 163, 164, 309, 318, 332, 333; Sherman's plans and operations in, 252, 254, 285, 299 et seq., 314, 316 et seq., 319, 322, 33