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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XV (search)
to follow you, I will follow him as far as possible. If he does not follow you, I will then thoroughly organize my troops, and I believe I shall have men enough to ruin him unless he gets out of the way very rapidly. The country through middle Alabama, I learn, is teeming with supplies this year, which will be greatly to our advantage. I have no additional news to report from the direction of Florence. I am now convinced that the greater part of Beauregard's army is near Florence and Tuscumbia, and that you will at least have a clear road before you for several days, and that your success will fully equal your expectations. He had ordered me to march, as Stanley had done, from Tullahoma to Pulaski; but the action of Forrest at Johnsonville about that time caused General Thomas to change his orders and hurry me by rail to Nashville, and thence to Johnsonville, with the advance of my troops, he wishing to see me in person as I passed through Nashville. War Records, Vol. XXXIX,
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVI (search)
eatened, the enemy is now in the full tide of execution of his grand plan to destroy my communications and defeat this army. His infantry, about 30,--000, with Wheeler's and Roddey's cavalry, from 7000 to 10,000, are now in the neighborhood of Tuscumbia and Florence, and, the water being low, is able to cross at will. Forrest seems to be scattered from Eastport to Jackson, Paris, and the lower Tennessee; and General Thomas reports the capture by him of a gunboat and five transports. General on, in lieu of that which had contemplated holding the line of the Tennessee firmly, as follows: Despatch of last night received. The fact that Forrest is down about Johnsonville, while Hood, with his infantry, is still about Florence and Tuscumbia, gives you time for concentration. The supplies about Chattanooga are immense, and I will soon be independent of them; therefore I would not risk supplies coming in transitu from Nashville to Chattanooga. In like manner, we have large supplie
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
ille, 316; movements at Dallas, Cedartown, and Acworth, 316; retreat down the Coosa, 316, 318; Thomas to watch, 317; position near Selma, 318; assembles Georgia militia, 319; Thomas to take offensive against, 319; 320, 325, 326; at Florence and Tuscumbia, 320; Thomas to hold in check, 321; Thomas's failure to destroy, 329, 330, 335; destruction of his army in Tennessee, 340, 343, 348; fall of Atlanta, 341 Hooker, Maj.-Gen., Joseph, battle of Kolb's Farm, 132-136; his ambition, 136; questionsuards at, 197; S. ordered to Pulaski from, 288; Stanley moves to Pulaski from, 288 Tuolumne Meadows, in camp on the, 431 Turner, James, 2 Turner, Thomas J., appoints the author to West Point, 2; succeeded in Congress by Campbell, 11 Tuscumbia, Ala., Beauregard near, 288; Hood's forces at and near, 318, 320 Twelfth Corps, French Army, autumn manoeuvers of 1881, 451-453 Twelfth Kentucky Infantry, in battle of Franklin, 178-180, 229 Twentieth Army Corps, captures and holds Atlant