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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter VII (search)
to whip somebody anyhow. This information and advice elicited a long reply, from which the following are extracts, which expressed pretty fully my views and feelings on that subject, and which, with events that soon followed, ended all trouble I ever had with that august body, the United States Senate. I recollect in this connection a very pertinent remark made by General Grant soon after he became President. My nomination as major-general in the regular army, with those of Sherman and Sheridan as general and lieutenant-general, had been sent to the Senate and returned approved so promptly as to occasion comment. I remarked that it had on one occasion taken me a year and a half to get through the Senate. President Grant, as he handed me my commission, replied: Yes; and if your conduct then had been such as to avoid that difficulty with the Senate, you would probably never have received this commission at all. I have no doubt he was right. To have pleased the radical politician
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter IX (search)
t disposition that could have been made. As related to me personally by General Sheridan,—for I have not yet studied the Virginia campaigns so thoroughly as to jusonfederate cavalry commander General J. E. B. Stuart, in trying to get between Sheridan and Richmond, which gave Sheridan the advantage and led to Stuart's defeat. SSheridan the advantage and led to Stuart's defeat. Stuart had ridden hard all night, and got between Sheridan and Richmond, his men and horses exhausted, while Sheridan had been resting and feeding his men and animals.Sheridan and Richmond, his men and horses exhausted, while Sheridan had been resting and feeding his men and animals. In the morning Sheridan rode over his exhausted antagonist. These are among the many cases where exaggerated ideas of the importance of places have led to the defeSheridan had been resting and feeding his men and animals. In the morning Sheridan rode over his exhausted antagonist. These are among the many cases where exaggerated ideas of the importance of places have led to the defeat of armies. I knew Stuart well at West Point, he having been in the class next to mine. He then gave promise of his future brilliant career as a cavalry leader. Sheridan rode over his exhausted antagonist. These are among the many cases where exaggerated ideas of the importance of places have led to the defeat of armies. I knew Stuart well at West Point, he having been in the class next to mine. He then gave promise of his future brilliant career as a cavalry leader. The only specially hazardous part of Sherman's movement was that which would fall to my lot—namely, to hold the pivot against a possible attack of Hood's whole army
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XX (search)
thdrawal of the French army Grant's letter of instructions to General Sheridan Secretary Seward Advocates moral Suasion a mission to Paris ive evidence of ultimate military purpose in aid of diplomacy, General Sheridan was sent, with an army of about fifty thousand men, to the line of the Rio Grande. But Sheridan's troops were Union volunteers who had been enlisted especially for the Civil War, then terminated; and thescript order, dated West Point, July 25, 1865, addressed to General P. H. Sheridan, then commanding the Military Division of the Gulf, with a es of the United States. West Point, N. Y., July 25, 1865. Maj.-Gen. P. H. Sheridan, Commanding Mil. Div. of the Gulf. General: Maj.-Gener, U. S. Grant, Lt.-Gen. In effect this order required General Sheridan to turn over to me all of his volunteer troops who might wish my standard. Soon after the date of General Grant's order to General Sheridan, and at the request of Secretary Seward, conveyed to me by Mr.
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXII (search)
the general staff of the army, and the latter course was adopted. The ancient controversy was up to 1888 no nearer settlement than it was in 1869, though in General Sheridan's time some progress had been made in the persistent efforts to deprive the general-in-chief of the little authority which had been left to General Sherman. General Sheridan had, with his usual gallantry and confidence, renewed the contest, but had been worsted in his first encounter with the Secretary, and then gave up the struggle. Upon my assignment to the command of the army in 1888, I determined to profit so far as possible by the unsatisfactory experience of Generals Scott, Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan—at least so far as to avoid further attempts to accomplish the impossible, which attempts have usually the result of accomplishing little or nothing. In fact, long study of the subject, at the instance of Generals Grant and Sherman, earnest efforts to champion their views, and knowledge of the causes
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIII (search)
In President Grant's order of March, 1869, assigning the general officers to commands, the Department of the Missouri again fell to my lot. I relieved Lieutenant-General Sheridan, who took command of the Division of the Missouri, and removed his headquarters from St. Louis to Chicago, which then became for the first time the prinen up and the batteries again scattered to separate posts. When that department again came under my command, as part of the Division of the Missouri, and General Sheridan was in command of the army, a move was made by somebody to get possession of that splendid military reservation of Fort Riley for some other purpose. Hence es. The occasion had again come for carrying out that scheme which Hunt and I had devised for doing what was so much needed for the artillery. Fortunately, General Sheridan wanted also to do something beneficial for the cavalry, in which he felt much the same special interest that I did in the artillery. So a sort of alliance,
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIV (search)
er-ambitious aspirant possessed of greater influence, of whatever kind. I know perfectly well that General Sherman was governed by a generous desire to give General Sheridan command of the army for a number of years, while the latter was still in the prime of life. But that he could have done, and had announced his intention to 82, I was again assigned to the command of the Division of the Pacific, awaiting the time of General Sherman's retirement under the law and the succession of General Sheridan to the command of the army. Nothing of special interest occurred in that interval. In 1883 I succeeded to the command of the Division of the Missouri, withe eligible sites were examined, the prices obtained, and the purchase-money pledged. Then the proposition was submitted to the War Department and approved. General Sheridan was sent out to select the best of the sites offered, and his choice fell on that which all, I believe, had esteemed the best, though the most expensive—a b
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXV (search)
xtremities for the use of angle-measuring instruments, and graduating traverse circles in azimuth. Systematic artillery instruction and target practice were ordered, and a system of reports suited to the preservation and utilization of all data resulting from the firing. Thus, for the first time in the history of the country, an effort was made to establish and develop a system of artillery fire control adapted to our fortifications and armament. In 1888 General Schofield succeeded General Sheridan in command of the army, and in December issued General Orders, No. 108 from the headquarters of the army. This order extended to all the artillery troops of the army the system of artillery instruction and target practice which had been established in the Division of the Atlantic. As it had not been found practicable to equip all the artillery posts with the necessary appliances for carrying out the provisions of the order, the eleven principal posts on the Eastern, Western, and South
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXVI (search)
Chapter XXVI The death of General Sheridan his successor in command of the army deploren the Department and the army commander General Sheridan's Humiliating experience the Granting oflebrate the funeral mass. The death of General Sheridan placed me in a position which I had neveren practically reached a long time before General Sheridan became seriously ill. He had long ceased,k and General Sherman to St. Louis, while General Sheridan stayed in Washington. I have always unn nearly all the time for forty years. General Sheridan had entered upon his duties with all the e ground lost by General Sherman when, to use Sheridan's own expressive words, Sherman threw up the , Scott and Sherman had given up the contest, Sheridan had been quickly put hors de combat, while Grnior officers of the army, including Sherman, Sheridan, and Hancock, united in advocating the measur that of Hancock, because I was younger. But Sheridan was only six months older than I, and his exp[1 more...]
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXVIII (search)
D. C.: Confidential despatch this date received at three-thirty P. M. Arrangements can be made to bring troops from Sheridan to Lake Front Park by steamer, but there would be difficulty in disembarking them there, as the Van Buren street viaduct has been torn down; and, besides, transportation from barracks to pier at Sheridan would necessarily be slow. They can be brought from Sheridan to Lake Front direct by rail, and disembark on grounds, thus avoiding marching through city. Suggest thSheridan to Lake Front direct by rail, and disembark on grounds, thus avoiding marching through city. Suggest the latter plan as best, especially as rail transportation is now at the post sufficient to bring the whole command—infantry, artillery, and cavalry—as soon as they can be loaded on cars at that point. Martin, Asst. Adjt.-Genl. (in absence of Major-Geided proper protection can be given them. Seven roads have moved a few cars of perishable freight. All the troops from Sheridan are occupied, and I renew my recommendation that that garrison be very largely increased at once to meet any emergency t
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIX (search)
of these blind guides were men supposed to have a very high military education. But if sound military education had been at all general in the country, statesmen would have known by what standard to judge of any one man's fitness for high command. It is true that no amount of military education can supply the place of military genius or create a great commander. It may possibly happen at any time that there may not be among all the living graduates of West Point one Grant or Sherman or Sheridan, or one Lee or Johnston or Jackson. So much greater the need of a well-educated staff and a well-disciplined army. Nobody is wise enough to predict who will prove best able to command a great army. But it is the easiest thing in the world to tell who can best create such an army and command its subdivisions, and this is the work to be done instantly upon the outbreak of war. The selection of commanders for the several armies, and, above all, of a general-in-chief, must of course be the m
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