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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter III (search)
he plans of the great campaign for which he was then preparing. Colonel Blair had, I believe, already been initiated, but I listened attentively for a long time, certainly more than an hour, to the elucidation of the project. In general outline the plan proposed a march of the main Army of the West through southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas to the valley of the Arkansas River, and thence down that river to the Mississippi, thus turning all the Confederate defenses of the Mississippi River down to and below Memphis. As soon as the explanation was ended Colonel Blair and I took our leave, making our exit through the same basement door by which we had entered. We walked down the street for some time in silence. Then Blair turned to me and said: Well, what do you think of him? I replied, in words rather too strong to repeat in print, to the effect that my opinion as to his wisdom was the same as it always had been. Blair said: I have been suspecting that for some time.
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter IV (search)
he politicians triumphed in part. The old department, called Department of the Mississippi, was divided, and Major-General Samuel R. Curtis was assigned to command the new Department of the Missouri, composed of the territory west of the Mississippi River. For some months the radicals had it all their own way, and military confiscation was carried on without hindrance. When this change occurred I was in the field in immediate command of the forces which I had assembled there for aggressihat part of the country for that season was ended. The question was What next? I took it for granted that the large force under my command—nearly 16,000 men—was not to remain idle while Grant or some other commander was trying to open the Mississippi River; and I was confirmed in this assumption by General Curtis's previous order to march eastward with two divisions, which order, though premature when given, might now be renewed without danger. At once, therefore, I set to work to organize a
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVII (search)
the change of policy above referred to. It is necessary not to confound the march to the sea as actually conceived and executed by Sherman as a preliminary to the march northward for the capture of Lee's army, with the previous far-reaching strategic plans of Grant, of which Sherman and other chief commanders were informed in the spring of 1864. Grant's plans had in view, as their great object, again to cut in two the Confederate territory, as had been done by the opening of the Mississippi River to the gulf. This next line of section might be Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Savannah, or Chattanooga, Atlanta, Montgomery, and Mobile. But with the disappearance of Hood's army from that theater of operations, all reason for that plan of territorial strategy had disappeared, and the occasion was then presented, for the first time, for the wholly different strategical plan of Sherman, of which Lee's army was the sole military objective. Grant was perfectly just to himself as well as to
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVIII (search)
leck, Thomas, Sherman, Grant, and the other chief commanders, and hence had much more to learn than they. Perhaps I was also, on account of comparative youth, more teachable. At any rate, the two lessons from Halleck above referred to, and later experience, caused me to do a world of thinking; so that I was amazed beyond expression when, in the winter of 1863-64, just before Grant was made lieutenant-general, Halleck told me that his plan for the next campaign was to send west of the Mississippi River force enough to finish the war in all that region of country, and then return and clear up the States east of that river! I said nothing, but could not help thinking that it was, sure enough, time to have another general-in-chief of the army. But accepting his strategic theory of operations in the American Civil War,—territorial conquest,—his plans of campaign were unquestionably sound. Halleck was, I believe, a man of great ability and of high military education, though with litt
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
ies and delays attending their transmission and deciphering, 169, 204, 206, 207, 211, 214, 218, 220, 224, 232, 233 Military training, 407 et seq. Militia, Gen. Scott's distrust of, 513 Milledgeville, Ga., Sherman proposes to wreck, 318 Milroy, Maj.-Gen. Robert H., in the Tennessee campaign, 205 Mint-julep, 26 Mississippi, Hood's proposed movement toward, 163; Thomas proposes a campaign in, 253, 255, 256; possible operations in, 305; Thomas to have command over, 317 Mississippi River, the, Fremont's plan of campaign on, 49; military operations on, 63-66, 70, 318; S. seeks service on, 64-66; importance of the opening of, 70, 337; Halleck's plan for clearing west of, 359; development of railroad communication between the Pacific and, 491, 492 Missouri, Rev. James Schofield's mission work in, 1; loyal and patriotic citizens of, 30, 31; disloyalty and flight of the governor, 32, 54; disbanding and reorganization of the State militia and raising of troops in, 32-37,