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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 8: from the battle of Bull Run to Paducah--Kentucky and Missouri. 1861-1862. (search)
ruct them, as expected, I was assigned in Washington City, by an order of Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, to inspection duty near him on the 20th of June, 1861. At that time Lieutenant-General Scott commanded the army in chief, with Colonel E. D. Townsend as his adjutant-general, Major G. W. Cullum, United States Engineers, and Major Schuyler Hamilton, as aides-de-camp. The general had an office upstairs on Seventeenth Street, opposite the War Department, and resided in a house close by, om the War Department: To the Department of the Cumberland, Brigadier-General Robert Anderson commanding: Brigadier-General W. T. Sherman, Brigadier-General George H. Thomas. . . . . . . . . . By command of Lieutenant-General Scott: E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. After some days, I was relieved in command of my brigade and post by Brigadier General Fitz-John Porter, and at once took my departure for Cincinnati, Ohio, via Cresson, Pennsylvania, where General Anderson w
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 15 (search)
hat the same are hereby tendered, to Major-General W. T. Sherman, commander of the Department and Army of the Tennessee, and the officers and soldiers who served under him, for their gallant and arduous services in marching to the relief of the Army of the Cumberland, and for their gallantry and heroism in the battle of Chattanooga, which contributed in a great degree to the success of our arms in that glorious victory. Approved February 19, 1864. By order of the Secretary of War: E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. On the 19th of December I was at Bridgeport, and gave all the orders necessary for the distribution of the four divisions of the Fifteenth Corps along the railroad from Stevenson to Decatur, and the part of the Sixteenth Corps, commanded by General Dodge, along the railroad from Decatur to Nashville, to make the needed repairs, and to be in readiness for the campaign of the succeeding year; and on the 21st I went up to Nashville, to confer with General G
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
orps11 128173201192         Capt. P. Babcock, Jr. Grand Total23618,6491241,9638,308163,142171,450170,8632,98766,0064458,1291655,93912,7332,667350  Official: E. D. Townsend, Adjutant-General. Geo. H. Thomas, Major-General commanding. Transcript from the Tri-Monthly Return of the Department and Army of the Tennessee, commandCaptain O. H. Howard. Total Force — Department and Army of the Tennessee561,6306,535128,228134,763132,6571,64330,7052706,1681706,0109,8072,323288  Official: E. D. Townsend, Adjutant-General. J. B. McPHERSON, Major-General commanding. Transcript from the Tri-Monthly Return of the Department of the Ohio, commanded by Major-G 128890224         Colonel J. P. Sanderson. Total Force--Department of the Ohio261,7571,96444,08846,05246,15867714,0362174,3421153,7392,032491602  Official: E. D. Townsend, Adjutant-General. J. M. Schofield, Major-General commanding. Each division and brgade was provided a fair proportion of wagons for a s
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 23 (search)
ore heartily than General Butler himself. On the 11th of January there arrived at Savannah a revenuecutter, having on board Simeon Draper, Esq., of New York City, the Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Quartermaster-General Meigs, Adjutant-General Townsend, and a retinue of civilians, who had come down from the North to regulate the civil affairs of Savannah. I was instructed by Mr. Stanton to transfer to Mr. Draper the custom-house, post-office, and such other public buildings as thes invited the most intelligent of the negroes, mostly Baptist and Methodist preachers, to come to my rooms to meet the Secretary of War. Twenty responded, and were received in my room up-stairs in Mr. Green's house, where Mr. Stanton and Adjutant-General Townsend took down the conversation in the form of questions and answers. Each of the twenty gave his name and partial history, and then selected Garrison Frazier as their spokesman: First Question. State what your understanding is in reg