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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter IX (search)
rched from Pulaski to that place, and our cavalry moved on the enemy's right to cover the turnpike and railroad. The whole army was in position at Columbia, November 24, and began to intrench. Hood's infantry did not appear in sight until the 26th. Cox had a brush with the enemy's cavalry, which had driven in one of our cavalry brigades. That action was magnified at the time, and afterward, into evidence of a race between our troops and the enemy for the possession of Columbia. In fact, Ruger's troops at Columbia were quite capable of holding that place against Forrest and Hood's infantry was not within a day's march of either Cox or Stanley until after both had reached Columbia. We held our intrenched position in front of Columbia until the evening of November 27, inviting an attack, and hoping that Thomas would arrive with, or send, reinforcements in time to assume the offensive from Columbia; but reinforcements did not come, and the enemy did not attack. It became evident
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter X (search)
e covering the roads and the trains, which were ordered to be parked at that place, and General Thomas H. Ruger was ordered to join him. About 8 A. M. on the 29th came a despatch from Thomas, dateand Stanley, with one division and our cavalry, could easily beat off Forrest. Hence I retained Ruger's division and one of Stanley's, and disposed all the troops to resist any attempt Hood might mae to Spring Hill and would not attack me on the bank of Duck River, I took the head of my troops—Ruger's division—and marched rapidly to Spring Hill, leaving staff officers to give orders to the othehese orders were somehow misunderstood. The order of march was reversed, and the troops, except Ruger's, and Whitaker's brigade of Kimball's division, did not move at once. But the delay did no hartroopers had been seen at Thompson's Station, three miles farther north, about dusk, I went with Ruger's division to drive them off and clear the way to Franklin. To my great surprise, I found only
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XI (search)
Cox holds the ford in front of Columbia, and Ruger the railroad bridge, which I partially destroyry which had been ordered to be parked there. Ruger's division of the Twenty-third Corps, except oewisburg pike, on Franklin. In my orders to Ruger, dated 8 A. M., directing him to move at once the morning of November 30. At the same time Ruger was directed to order his troops guarding the s of 8:30 A. M., November 29, and my orders to Ruger of 8 and 8:45 A. M., and to Stanley before anr 28, as indicated by my orders to Stanley and Ruger, and my despatch of 8:15 A. M. to Wilson. S (Kimball's), and had suspended the orders for Ruger's division to march to Spring Hill. When the between Duck River and Rutherford's Creek, and Ruger's north of that creek, to resist any attempt the enemy could seriously interfere with them. Ruger's one regiment, without impedimenta, was direcan Spring Hill, as is shown by my direction to Ruger to have his regiment from Ducktown join him th[3 more...]
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XV (search)
ankness justified by comradeship, had pointed it out to me the moment we met at Pulaski, while I was governed by the utmost delicacy in discussing the question with General Thomas, so as to avoid suggesting to him that he had made a mistake. Yet so evident was the mistake that I stopped the advance of the Twenty-third Corps some miles north of Pulaski, and no part of that corps actually went to that place. Cox was sent back to a point where he could interpose between Hood and Columbia, and Ruger was stopped at Columbia. The great tenacity with which I held on at Columbia and on the north bank of Duck River could not have been justified except by reference to the despatches showing Thomas's wishes and his assurance of reinforcements at those points. If I had been free to do so, nothing could have been plainer than my duty to have fallen back behind the Harpeth when I found that Thomas could not or would not reinforce me on the line of Duck River, and before Hood could endanger my
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIV (search)
ine of the army, the superintendent must necessarily be taken from the line, and not from the corps of engineers, although the latter contained many officers of appropriate rank who had then added to their high scientific ability and attainments distinguished services in the field. Even in the line, officers were not wanting of appropriate rank, character, ability, education, and experience to qualify them for the duties of superintendent. For example, my immediate predecessor, Major-General Thomas H. Ruger, then a colonel of infantry, was in all respects highly qualified for that office; and when I relieved him I found the academy in about the same state of efficiency which had characterized it before the war. There was, in fact, at that time little, if any, foundation for the assumption that the interests of the military academy required the assignment of any officer of higher rank than colonel to duty as superintendent of the academy. Of course I did not know this before I went
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
eau, Maj.-Gen. Lovell H., on the defense of the bridge at Columbia, 203, 204 Ruger, Maj.-Gen. Thomas H., holds Columbia, 168, 207, 282; on Duck River, 171; orderes, 169; his operations obstructed by civilian red tape, 169; orders Stanley and Ruger to Spring Hill, 171; moves against Forrest at Thompson's Station, 173, 174; Twi. moves to, 172, 173, 216; advantages of the day gained at, 185, 186, 219, 301; Ruger ordered to, 210, 211, 214, 215, 219; necessity of heading off Hood at, 213; RugRuger's movement to, suspended, 214; covering approaches to, 214, 216; S.'s expectations of finding reinforcements at, 215; the situation at, Nov. 29, 1864, 215 et seq.s Station, Tenn., Forrest at, 173; S. at, 174; military movements at, 207, 211; Ruger moves to, 216 Tilton, Ga., military movements near, 126 Time, an element ; S. appointed superintendent, 439 et seq.; effects of the Civil War on, 442; Gen. Ruger's superintendency, 442; opened to the line, 442; the case of Whittaker, 445,