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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 299 3 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 263 3 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 262 60 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 230 4 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 209 7 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 180 6 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 178 4 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 159 7 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 119 1 Browse Search
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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XV (search)
ers of the army. When General Grant was inaugurated President I went with General Sherman in person to ask the President to give General Thomas command of the Divisounted to furnish horses for Kilpatrick's division, which was to accompany General Sherman in his march through Georgia. . . . My plans and wishes were fully explainligation to take upon himself any such responsibility. It may be true, as General Sherman said and General Thomas admitted, that it was his duty to take command in ope with Hood after the arrival of the Twenty-third Corps. He had assured General Sherman of his entire confidence. See Thomas to Sherman, November 12, 1864,8:30Sherman, November 12, 1864,8:30 A. M.: Your despatch of 12 last night received. I have no fear that Beauregard can do us any harm now; and if he attempts to follow you, I will follow him as f of that period, including that which occurred between General Thomas and General Sherman, about which it is important to note that I knew nothing at that time, sho
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVI (search)
ch through Georgia, as Hood had supposed that Sherman would follow him into Tennessee. Was there ahe one supposition than the other? Ought not Sherman as well as Hood to have known his antagonist ons. The Southern army was thus placed where Sherman could operate against it by a much shorter li, no valid military reason had been given why Sherman should not have sent a cavalry raid into Geor stated it, a complete, logical whole. General Sherman then went on to give in his masterly way formation and instructions to Thomas: Sherman to Grant. Cartersville, Ga., October 10, 186erman should start for the sea-coast. General Sherman also omits to make any reference in his M late as November 1, Grant again suggested to Sherman that Hood ought to be his objective, now thatm the army in the field during Hood's raid in Sherman's rear, I knew little personally about those nce to Raleigh, and thence to report to you. Sherman's second letter to Grant, on the same subject[159 more...]
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVII (search)
Sherman— master of the situation the fame of Sherman's grand marches his great ability as a stratwriters have attempted to explain and justify Sherman's action in taking with him so large an army,ho had loudly proclaimed his purpose to drive Sherman out of Georgia, and protect that State from aast for that purpose. If that had been done, Sherman could have marched to Augusta, there replenis perceived instantly the full significance of Sherman's change of base to Savannah the moment that an started. The first thought suggested to Sherman by Hood's movement leaving open the road to Ms one of the points in both Grant's plans and Sherman's was merely an incident, and a very unimports clearly enough what kind of modification of Sherman's tactical methods was requisite to enable him to reach the same result in Georgia. Sherman's tactical operations during the entire Atlanta cdversary in command of a superior force. But Sherman's own knowledge of his own impulsive nature m[91 more...]
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVIII (search)
terms of surrender political reconstruction Sherman's genius contrast between Grant and Sherman know the ruling ideas which actuated him. As Sherman says, in his own estimate of the relative impts end the defeat and capture of Lee's army. Sherman and his army expected to share the glory of cme. After the concentration at Goldsboroa, Sherman's plan was to march straight for Lee's rear anot have been compelled to surrender. Indeed Sherman could not have prevented that army from marchuing the war for a time. In military history Sherman's great march must rank only as auxiliary to t in the capture of Lee's army. During General Sherman's interviews with the President and Genermilitary conventions at Bennett's House. But Sherman and Johnston were writing their own defense, hange would be greatly for the better. General Sherman was one of those rare actors in historic s letter of September 12, 1864, Grant paid to Sherman the following generous and glowing tribute: I[52 more...]
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XIX (search)
ield: J. A. Campbell, Assistant Adjutant-General. On May 4, I issued a circular to this effect: Local commanders and provost-marshals will encourage all refugees, white and colored, to return to their homes; and for this purpose will furnish them the necessary railroad passes and subsistence. Such persons must not be given passes to Raleigh or points on the sea-coast, nor be permitted to congregate about towns or camps, there to live in idleness. On May 5, I wrote to General Sherman: When General Grant was here, as you doubtless recollect, he said the lines had been extended to embrace this and other States south. The order, it seems, has been modified so as to include only Virginia and Tennessee. I think it would be an act of wisdom to open this State to trade at once. I hope the government will make known its policy as to organization of State governments without delay. Affairs must necessarily be in a very unsettled state until that is done. The people a
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXII (search)
om the capital several years, until the time when civil war was imminent. General Sherman also found it necessary to escape from an intolerable situation by removinf they had been under the watchful eye of a jealous old soldier, like Scott or Sherman, who was not afraid of them. As hereafter explained, the controversy betweermy, but with no permanent effect. Grant's Memoirs, Vol. II, pp. 104, 105; Sherman's Memoirs, second edition Vol. II, pp. 446-450. General Grant opposed theon that the Tenure-of-Office Act was, as Johnson claimed, unconstitutional. Sherman's Memoirs, second edition, Vol. II, p. 241; and McPherson's History of Reconsan it had been before Stanton's suspension in August, 1867, and when Grant and Sherman were trying to get Stanton out of the War Office. Sherman's Memoirs, secondSherman's Memoirs, second edition, Vol. II, pp. 422-424. At the time of General Grant's visit to Richmond, Va., as one of the Peabody trustees, he said to me that the conduct of Mr. Stanto
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIV (search)
except by the usual board of visitors and the general commanding the army. W. T. Sherman, General. (Telegram.) San Francisco, Cal., March 29, 1876. General Shermown course of action, but will be governed by events to occur in this week. W. T. Sherman, General. headquarters Mil. Div. Of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal., Maryou at West Point. I suppose the order will issue at once. Yours truly, W. T. Sherman. West Point, N. Y., December 14, 1880. General Sherman, Washington, D. C your leave to go abroad meantime? Telegraph me fully and frankly for use. W. T. Sherman, General. (Telegram—9:30 P. M.） Headqrs. Mil. Div. of the Gulf, New Orleans, La., May 3, 1881. General W. T. Sherman, Washington, D. C.: Your telegram of this date just received. I am debarred, by a promise made to General McDowell aay, till further orders of the President. You may take action accordingly. W. T. Sherman, General. My stay in Europe—from May, 1881, to May, 1882— was marked b
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXVI (search)
an became seriously ill. He had long ceased, as General Sherman and General Scott had before him, not only to cnce was that General Scott went to New York and General Sherman to St. Louis, while General Sheridan stayed in laring his purpose to regain the ground lost by General Sherman when, to use Sheridan's own expressive words, SSherman threw up the sponge. He announced his interpretation of the President's order assigning him to the comm illustrious Stanton, now well known in history, Sherman's Memoirs, second edition, Vol. II, p. 422. to thef my predecessors in command of the army, Scott and Sherman had given up the contest, Sheridan had been quicklydecessors. At the request of General Grant and General Sherman, when the one was President and the other gene, so far as I know, from any but General Grant, General Sherman, and General M. C. Meigs, then quartermaster-ge1882 all the senior officers of the army, including Sherman, Sheridan, and Hancock, united in advocating the me
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIX (search)
the worst of these blind guides were men supposed to have a very high military education. But if sound military education had been at all general in the country, statesmen would have known by what standard to judge of any one man's fitness for high command. It is true that no amount of military education can supply the place of military genius or create a great commander. It may possibly happen at any time that there may not be among all the living graduates of West Point one Grant or Sherman or Sheridan, or one Lee or Johnston or Jackson. So much greater the need of a well-educated staff and a well-disciplined army. Nobody is wise enough to predict who will prove best able to command a great army. But it is the easiest thing in the world to tell who can best create such an army and command its subdivisions, and this is the work to be done instantly upon the outbreak of war. The selection of commanders for the several armies, and, above all, of a general-in-chief, must of cou
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXX (search)
President to select his chief general, would be the education thus given to officers of the army in respect to the relation in which they stand to the commander-in-chief, and in respect to the reasonable limits of military ambition in a republic where the President is and must be commander-in-chief, whether he is a man of military education and experience or not. So strongly were these views impressed upon my mind by my studies of the subject, made at the request of General Grant and General Sherman many years ago, that when I became the senior officer of the Army I refrained scrupulously from suggesting to the President or the Secretary of War or anybody else that I had any expectation of being assigned to the command, or regarded myself as having any claim to it. It seemed to me solely a question for the President himself to decide whether or not he wanted me as his chief military adviser and assistant, and it would have been impossible for me to consent that anybody should try t
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