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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 14: (search)
] The following dispatch having been received from Lieutenant-General Grant, viz.: Please telegraph orders relieving him (General Thomas) at once, and placing (General) Schofield in command, the President orders: 1. That Major-General J. M. Schofield relieve, at once, Major-General G. H. Thomas, in command of the Department and Army of the Cumberland. 2. General Thomas will turn over to General Schofield all orders and instructions received by him since the battle of Franklin. E. D. Townsend, A. A. G. Nashville, Tenn., December 9, 1864, 1 P. M. Liutenant-General U. S. Grant, City Point. Your dispatch of 8:30 P. M. of the 8th is just received. I have nearly completed my preparations to attack the enemy to-morrow morning, but a terrible storm of freezing rain has come on to-day, which will make it impossible for our men to fight to any advantage. I am, therefore, compelled to wait for the storm to break and make the attack immediately after. Admiral Lee is patrollin
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 15: (search)
tton in this city, and provide for its proper care and preservation until further orders. You will consider yourself charged with the duty of having sufficient guards and precautions for its security, and will apply to the commanding general for any force required. You will also detail a competent quartermaster for the special duty of seeing to its being turned over and receipted for by the agents of the Treasury Department. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. In pursuance of this order General Meigs, then in Savannah, issued the following: [special orders, no. 1.] Savannah, Ga., January 12, 1865. The Secretary of War having directed the Quartermaster-General to assume the charge of the captured cotton in this city and provide for its proper care and preservation, and to detail a competent quartermaster for the special duty of seeing to its being turned over and receipted for by the agents of t
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 19: (search)
of the army, line, or staff, will be transmitted through the General of the Army. J. M. Schofield, Secretary of War. By command of the General of the Army. E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. General Schofield, who expected to retire in a few days, did not care to make issue upon it, and contented himself with poiction of the President of the United States, the undersigned hereby assumes command of the Army of the United States. His general staff will be: Brevet Major-General E. D. Townsend, Adjutant-General. Brevet Major-General R. B. Marcy, Inspector-General. Brevet Major-General M. C. Meigs, Quartermaster-General. Brevet Major-Genued by the President or Secretary of War, will be issued through the General of the Army. John A. Rawlins, Secretary of War. By command of General Sherman. E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General. The violations of law in General Sherman's Order No. 12, can be readily made to appear. The act of July 25, 1866, reviving