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Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ady given him, viz., to join the Fourth Corps at Pulaski, and assume command of all the troops in the vicinity, watch the movements of Hood, and retard his advance into Tennessee as much as possible, without risking a general engagement, until Maj.-Gen. A. J. Smith's command could arrive from Missouri, and Maj.-Gen. J. H. Wilson could have time to remount the cavalry regiments dismounted to furnish horses for Kilpatrick's division, which was to accompany General Sherman in his march through Georgia. . . . My plans and wishes were fully explained to General Schofield, and, as subsequent events will show, properly appreciated and executed by him. Thus, General Thomas, being fully satisfied with the operations of the troops while under my immediate command in the field, asserted that those operations were based upon his plans and wishes, which had been fully explained to me before I went to Pulaski, and properly appreciated, instead of upon what I had gathered from General Thomas's or
Ohio (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
to the battle of Nashville, you explained the situation at Nashville prior to General Thomas's movement against Hood, with a view of removing the feeling that I had that Thomas had been slow. I was very impatient at that time with what I thought was tardiness on the part of General Thomas, and was very much afraid that while he was lying there at Nashville and not moving his army, Hood might cross the Tennessee River either above or below the city of Nashville, and get between him and the Ohio River, and make a retrograde movement of our army at Nashville a necessity, and very much embarrass and delay future operations of the armies. Laboring under this feeling and impression, I was telegraphing General Thomas daily, and almost hourly, urging him to move out and attack Hood, and finally became so impatient that I contemplated his removal and the substitution of another officer in his place; but this feeling on my part was not added to by any despatches from any person from the scene
Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
e statement of the facts in respect to this matter, such as must be accepted without question. I hope, therefore, it is not asking too much to request you to give me, in a form which I may use publicly, a full and explicit statement of the facts in respect to this accusation. Perhaps you may also be able to recall the substance of a conversation between you and me, on the subject of the delay of Thomas to attack Hood at Nashville, which occurred on the naval steamer on our way from Hampton Roads to Cape Fear River, when we went down to see Admiral Porter and General Terry while my troops were delayed by the ice in the Potomac. In that conversation I tried to justify Thomas's delay during the storm at Nashville, and, I thought, perhaps succeeded in modifying to some extent your opinion on the subject. If you are able to recollect the substance of that conversation, a statement of it would be an effective answer to the malicious charges that I was not faithful to Thomas as my
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
s in Tennessee, having at our last meeting there congratulated him upon his well-deserved promotion to the highest permanent grade, that of major-general in the regular army, I had no further official intercourse with him, and, so far as I can recollect, did not see him until after June 1, 1868, when I entered the War Department. During the intervening time—more than three years—my attention had been absorbed by important duties, including a mission to France in defense of the then violated Monroe doctrine, and command in Virginia during a part of the period of reconstruction. I had not even seen the official reports of the campaign in Tennessee, they having been made public while I was in Europe. Some time in 1868-9 a staff officer in the War Department brought to my notice the indorsement made by General Thomas on my report of the battle of Franklin, and of the preceding operations from the time when, by his order, I assumed command of the army in the field, as follows:
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
doing its deadly work in secret for nearly seventeen years. The following correspondence with General Grant shows the character of that slander, and its complete refutation: London, England, July 12, 1881. General U. S. Grant, New York, U. S. A. my dear General: For a long time I have been made aware of the fact that a base falsehood was secretly circulated throughout the country, to the effect that while General Thomas's army was at Nashville in December, 1864, I endeavored in some to recollect the substance of that conversation, a statement of it would be an effective answer to the malicious charges that I was not faithful to Thomas as my commanding officer. Not knowing where you may be when this letter reaches the United States, I send it to Colonel Wherry, to be sent you by mail or handed you by one of my aides, as may be most convenient. Please do me the great favor to send to Wherry, or the other officer who may call upon you, an answer which he may use in publi
Tuscumbia (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
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,
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
al Grant. after I parted from General Thomas in Tennessee, having at our last meeting there congratulated hi even seen the official reports of the campaign in Tennessee, they having been made public while I was in Europ time General Thomas's report of the operations in Tennessee. If I did, there was nothing in it to attract my l the published records of the campaign of 1864 in Tennessee, for the purpose of doing exact justice to the prithe movements of Hood, and retard his advance into Tennessee as much as possible, without risking a general engd not, at the time I went back to report to him in Tennessee, any anxiety about his inability to cope with Hoodct to defensive action against Hood's advance into Tennessee, which I had so properly appreciated and executed,r the event, or at least after Hood's advance into Tennessee had actually begun, and after I had, in my telegrawhen he intrusted to me the command of his army in Tennessee, from Pulaski through Columbia, Spring Hill, and F
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
e official Records in regard to Franklin and Nashville documents which have disappeared from the Ry commander who, besides the like service at Nashville, had commanded the army in the field, in thet but brilliant success of General Thomas at Nashville. （2) In the first letter from General Thoy under my immediate command from Pulaski to Nashville. The record fully shows that, from the necehing to see me in person as I passed through Nashville. War Records, Vol. XXXIX, part III, p. 6been any, that when I met General Thomas at Nashville, on my way to Johnsonville, he expected A. Js which were so foreign to his nature. At Nashville, in December, 1864, and afterward, General Tons which had been made to General Thomas at Nashville, and the name of their principal, if not soln, disparaging General Thomas's movements at Nashville. On the contrary, my recollection is that wssee River either above or below the city of Nashville, and get between him and the Ohio River, and[16 more...]
Tullahoma (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
he 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, part III, p. 624. It would not be an unreasonable presumption that the burden of conversation in that brief interview was in respect to the alarming condition at Johnsonville at that time, rather
San Francisco (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
vision of the Pacific, which I had before proposed for him, but which the President had designated for me, under the impression that General Thomas did not want it. A few days after that we went to our respective commands—General Thomas to San Francisco, and I to Fort Leavenworth. From that time we had no official or personal relations or correspondence during the short remainder of his life. In respect to what was made public during that brief period, I long since refused to believe thaville, in December, 1864, and afterward, General Thomas appears to have been made the victim of a conspiracy to poison his mind by false accusations against his senior subordinate. A press report of a conversation said to have taken place in San Francisco in the year 1869, between General Thomas and General Halleck, gave some indication of the effect which had been produced on the mind of General Thomas. From that time forward there appeared frequent indications of the secret operations of th
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