John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army

War, 90; strength in Missouri and Kansas, 90; reinforces Rosecrans, 90; hostile delegation from Missouri and Kansas goes to Washington concerning, 91, 93-99; determines to relieve Blunt, 93; demands that he be relieved by Butler, 94; his administration praised by the President, 95; refuses to allow retaliatory raid from Kansas into Missouri, 97; Lane ceases hostilities against, 99; difficulties in dealing with the negro enlistment question, 99, 100; revulsions of feeling in Missouri in favor of, 101, 102, 424-428; attitude on license of speech and press, 102, 425; policy toward the Missouri factions, 103; desire for purely military service, 106; interview with Washburne at St. Louis, 107; misrepresented to the President by Washburne, 107; succeeds Foster in command of the Department and Army of the Ohio, 109, 110, 113; last interview with Lincoln, 110; hopes for the future, 112; arrives at Knoxville, 113; condition of the Army of the Ohio on taking command, 114; sends out reconnoissance on the French Broad, 115; determines to take the offensive, 115; occupies Strawberry Plains, 115; Grant proposes to send reinforcements to, 115; advances toward and holds Morristown, 115, 116 ; the Ninth Corps withdrawn from his command, 116; disappointment at being balked of active operations, 116; nominated major-general, U. S. A., by Pres. Grant, 117, 543; nomination confirmed by the Senate, 117; views on promotion, 117-119; his services and policy approved by his superiors, 118; views on military duty, 118, 149-151; on the prospects of ending the war, 119; preparations for the campaign of 1864, 119, 120; wins the confidence of his men, 120; relations and confidences with Sherman, 121 et seq., 134, 164, 165, 252, 341, 342; the spirit of his military criticisms, 121 et seq.; question of relative rank between Stanley and, 124,156,157,160,161,199; friendly relations with McPherson, 125,136-139; battle of Kolb's Farm, 132-136; question of relative rank between Hooker and, 136; annoyed by Hooker's seizing roads assigned to, 136, 139; question of relative rank between McPherson and, 137; personal regard for, relations with, and knowledge of character of Hood, 137, 138, 222, 229, 231, 232, 238, 245, 273, 307; friendship with Blair, 138; helping classmates at West Point, 138; a night visit to McPherson's camp, 139; battle of Resaca, 140, 141; extension of his lines, June 24-25, 1864, 142, 143; ordered to ‘attack’ at Kenesaw Mountain, 144; battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, 146-148; movement before Atlanta, Aug. 4-5, 1864, 148, 149; ordered to report to Stanley, 149, 156; alleged argument concerning ‘relative rank’ by, 149; esteem for Gen. Palmer, 150, 151; opinion of Sherman's proposed movement against Atlanta, 153; acquaintance with Stuart at West Point, 154; ordered to fortify his position, 155; acquiesces in Sherman's orders as to rank, 156; narrow escapes from capture, 157, 161; battle of Jonesboroa, 157, 158; anxiety to attack Hood on the McDonough road, 159; thanked by Halleck for action in question of rank between Stanley and, 160; proposes to seize the passes through Lookout Range, 161; asks to be sent to, is ordered to join, and reports to Thomas, 161, 164, 165, 190, 320, 322, 344; ordered to Chattanooga, 161; watches Hood's movements, 161; at Cleveland, Tenn., 161; ordered to defend Caperton's Ferry, 162; requested to write a critical history of the Atlanta campaign, 162; reports to Sherman, 164; marches toward Savannah, 165; ordered to Tullahoma, 165; ordered to Johnsonville, 165, 166, 288-290; ordered to command at Pulaski, 165, 166; commanding Thomas's troops before Nashville, 166; meeting with Stanley at Pulaski, 166, 167; faults in Thomas's instructions to, 166, 167; Thomas accepts his suggestions, 167; relations with Thomas, 167, 169, 189, 190, 200, 202, 225-227, 238, 239, 241, 242, 247, 252, 273, 276-298; reasons for lack of concert between Thomas and, 169; actions approved by Thomas, 169; his operations obstructed by civilian red tape, 169; orders Stanley and Ruger to Spring Hill, 171; moves against Forrest at Thompson's Station, 173, 174; Twining's ride with despatches to Sherman from, 174; reaches Franklin, 175, 221; asks Thomas for pontoons at Franklin, 175, 176; punishes an officer for needless sacrifice of his men, 182; steps to eradicate yellow fever from the army, 183; possibilities of an earlier retreat to Nashville, 185; reasons for not following up success at Franklin, 187, 188; correspondence between Thomas and, filed at the War Department, 188; commanding at San Francisco, 188, 430; commanding the Twenty-third Corps, 190; ignorance of Thomas's actual resources, 194; interview with Grant on the steamer Rhode Island, 198, 294, 295, 346, 361, 362 ; on the duty of a general to command in person, 199, 200; given free hand by Thomas, 202; Thomas sends reinforcements to, 205; Thomas's anxiety for him to hold Hood in check, 205,206,220 et seq., 231, 285; difficulties of communication with Thomas, 206, 207, 218, 281; supposes that Smith had arrived at Nashville, 206-208; holds the Columbia and Franklin Turnpike, 208; the retreat to Franklin, 210, 212-215, 217-219; expectation of finding reinforcements at Franklin, 215; reliance on Stanley, 215, 216; mistake in orders of Nov. 29, 1864, 216, 217; Hammond ordered to report to, 217; invites military criticism, 219; crosses the Harpeth, 221, 222; deprecates further attempts to hold Hood back, 222, 223; Thomas's failure to support him properly, 222, 223; proposes to stand at Brentwood, 223-225; ordered to fall back to Nashville, 224, 226; arrival at Brentwood, 226; a night's rest after the battle of Franklin, 227; on the conduct of his troops at Franklin, 227-230; on the slaughter at Franklin, 229, 230; in advance on Atlanta, 231; deciphers despatch from Grant, 232, 233; on aggressive warfare by the South, 234, 235; at Thomas's military council, 237, 238; designed by Grant to supersede Thomas, 237-239; upholds Thomas in his resolve