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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter I (search)
wo before had failed to continue his course in the Military Academy. Thus a vacancy occurred just at the close of Mr. Thomas J. Turner's term in Congress. There was no time for applications or for consultation. He must select another candidate to enter the following June, or leave the place to be filled by his successor. Fortunately for me, Mr. Turner, as one of the public-school directors, had been present at an examination where the subject with which I had to deal was mathematical; if he had caught me at Latin, the result must have been fatal to all my prospects. Besides, Mr. Turner had heard from his brother James of the stamina I had shown in the public land-surveying expedition; and also from my father of my determination to get ment whatever. This was after I had been in Washington several weeks. My congressman, Mr. Campbell, who had succeeded Mr. Turner, and several others received me kindly, read my letters, and promised to see the Secretary of War, which no doubt they
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
uileries, the, S.'s presentation at, 392 Tullahoma, Tenn., Stanley at, 164; S. ordered to, 165; necessity for railroad guards 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, 45Turner, 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 Atlanta, 316, 341 Twenty-fifth Missouri Regiment, ordered to Arkansas, 84, 85 Twenty-first Illinois Volunteers, action at Fredericktown, Mo., Oct. 20, 21, 1861, 51-53 Twenty-third Army Corps, organized by George L. Hartsuff; 25; portion of, at Knoxville, 113; Sherman's opinion of, 120; mutual confidence between S. and, 120; in the Atlanta campaign and capture of Atlanta,