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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 4: California. 1855-1857. (search)
went up and found there, in a room on the second floor over the bar-room, Governor Johnson, Chief-Justice Terry, Jones, of Palmer, Cooke & Co., E. D. Baker, Volney E. Howard, and one or two others. All were talking furiously against Wool, denouncing him as a d----d liar, and not sparing the severest terms. I showed the Governorat down at the table, and wrote my resignation, which Johnson accepted in a complimentary note on the spot, and at the same time he appointed to my place General Volney E. Howard, then present, a lawyer who had once been a member of Congress from Texas, and who was expected to drive the d----d pork-merchants into the bay at short , had he adhered to his promise, we could have checked the committee before it became a fixed institution, and a part of the common law of California. Major-General Volney E. Howard came to San Francisco soon after; continued the organization of militia which I had begun; succeeded in getting a few arms from the country; but one d
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 15 (search)
leventh Corps (Slocum), and the Twelfth Corps (Howard), were sent by rail to Nashville, and forward forward to Ringgold to explain the movement of Howard; where I met General Grant, and learned that t to restore to General Thomas the divisions of Howard and Davis, which belonged to his army, and to e position. He was not aware at the time that Howard, by moving through Parker's Gap toward Red Claordingly, on the morning of November 29th, General Howard moved from Parker's Gap to Cleveland, Genesion, four guns, and other material, which General Howard took at daylight. But the bridge was gonewas mended, all the troops moved forward. General Howard had marched from Loudon, had found a prettf Murplly. Subsequently, on a report from General Howard that the enemy held Charleston, I divertedoint I had previously ordered the corps of General Howard. On the 14th of December all of my commto their appropriate commands the corps of General Howard and the division commanded by General Jeff[10 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
rail from Nashville as equitably as possible. We also agreed on some subordinate changes in the organization of the three separate armies which were destined to take the field; among which was the consolidation of the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps (Howard and Slocum) into a single corps, to be commanded by General Jos. Hooker. General Howard was to be transferred to the Fourth Corps, vice Gordon Granger to avail himself of his leave of absence; and General Slocum was to be ordered down the MississGeneral Howard was to be transferred to the Fourth Corps, vice Gordon Granger to avail himself of his leave of absence; and General Slocum was to be ordered down the Mississippi River, to command the District of Vicksburg. These changes required the consent of the President, and were all in due time approved. The great question of the campaign was one of supplies. Nashville, our chief depot, was itself partially in a hostile country, and even the routes of supply from Louisville to Nashville by rail, and by way of the Cumberland River, had to be guarded. Chattanooga (our starting-point) was one hundred and thirty-six miles in front of Nashville, and every foo