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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVII (search)
nt was ready with his plan, first to seize and hold the Southern railroads by which supplies could reach Lee, and second, for Sherman and the most of his army to come to Virginia by sea, to which Sherman responded with all the loyalty of his most loyal nature, only mentioning incidentally his own plan. Thereupon, when Grant gave him an invitation to speak freely, he replied as above quoted, and explained in detail his plans for the northward march, to be on the Roanoke, either at Raleigh or Weldon, by the time the spring fairly opens; and if you feel confident that you can whip Lee outside of his intrenchments, I feel equally confident that I can handle him in the open country. But Sherman's busy brain had provided in advance even for the worst possible contingency—that after all his long march, however long it might prove to be, that march might have to stand alone—he might not actually take part in the capture of either of the Confederate armies. Hence, before starting on his m
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
ver delays at Nashville, 236 et seq.; excitement in, on Lincoln's, assassination, 349; possibilities of its capture in 1863, 525; the question of living expenses at, 538; Gen. Scott removes his headquarters to New York from, 406; Sherman removes his headquarters to St. Louis from, 406; interviews between Evarts and S. at, 413-418; meeting of Miles and S. at, 494 Washington State, obstruction of rail-roads in, 512 Washington University, S. accepts professorship of physics in, 30 Weldon, N. C., Sherman's movement to, 334 West, development of the, 491 West Point, Grant at, 380. See also military Department of West Point; United States military Academy. Westport, Mo., S. at, 83 Wharton, Col. H. C., despatch from Thomas, Nov. 29, 1864, 228 Wheeler, Lieut.-Gen., Joseph, on the Tennessee, 318 Wherry, Brig.-Gen. William M., aide-de-camp to S., 188, 294; lieutenant-colonel, Second U. S. Infantry, 188; accompanies S. to Paris, 385 Whisky, tendency to conflict wit