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

[572] doubts the validity of Sherman's order, 156; battle of Jonesboroa, 157, 158; courage, 158; ordered to reinforce Thomas, 158, 164, 317, 322 ; at Tullahoma, 164; ordered to Pulaski, 165; meeting with S. at Pulaski, 166 ; telegram from Thomas, Nov. 13. 1864, 166, 167; detects flaw in Thomas's instructions to S., 166, 167; moves from Pulaski to Columbia, 168; movement to, gallantry at, and battle of Spring Hill, 171-173, 210, 214, 216, 217,228, 2300,279; commanding rear-guard at Franklin, 175 ; battle of Franklin, 177; at Columbia, 202; supporting Cox at Duck River, 207; despatch from X., Nov. 29, 1864, 214; S.'s reliance on, 215, 216 junction with S., 252, 326 ; recommended for brevet grade, 277, 279, 280 ; wounded at Franklin, 279; Thomas's omission to give proper credit to, for Spring Hill and Franklin, 279; at Pulaski, 252; telegram from Thomas, Nov. 8, 1864, 284, 290; marches from Tullahoma to Pulaski, 288; ordered to tight Hood at Pulaski or Columbia, 290; at Athens, Tenn., 319

Stanton, Edwin M., Secretary of War, 57; orders S., to confiscated rebel property in Missouri, 57; his confiscation order repudiated by the President, 57, 58; rebukes Herron, 64; ignores S.'s request for instructions on the negro enlistment question, 99, 100; approves S.'s appointment to the Department of the Ohio, 111; approves S.'s services and policy, 118; speaks of the financial difficulties of the war, 255, 530 ; correspondence with Thomas, 277, 279, 280; letter from Halleck, May 10, 1865, 360; consultations with S. as to Mexican affairs, 379, 382, 383; letter to Seward, Aug. 23, 1865, 383; controversy with Grant, 407 et seq.; usurps military command, 411; controversy with Pres. Johnson, 411 at seq.; his removal opposed by Grant, 411, 412; yields to superior force, 412; suspended from office, 412, 478; returns to the War Office, 412; Grant's and Sherman's attempts to oust, 412,413; S.'s views on his removal, 417; methods and manners, 477

State rights, the doctrine in Missouri, 54, 58; the question of the Federal power and, 374, 493 et seq.

States, supposed reduction to the condition of Territories, 374

Statesmanship, an act of false, 516

Steedman, Maj.-Gen. James B., his force at Chattanooga, 195, 197, 205, 206; reaches Nashville from Chattanooga, 195 ; telegram from Thomas, Nov. 25, 1864, 197; need of his troops at Columbia, 197, 205; expected at Nashville, 225 ; proposed movement to Brentwood, 225; reinforces Thomas at Nashville, 254; battle of Nashville, 266, 267; false statements by, concerning S., 267, 296 Steele, Maj.-Gen. Frederick, captures Little Rock, 70; troops ordered to reinforce, 85; commanding in Arkansas, 112

Sternberg, Surg.-Gen. George M., praise for his services, 183

Stevenson, Ala., necessity for railroad guards near, 197; as base of supplies for

Sherman, 304; Fourth Corps ordered to, 317

Stickney, Ben, sports at Hat Island, 428

Stoneman, Maj.-Gen., George, defeats Breckinridge, 254; campaign in southwest Virginia, 254

Strawberry Plains, Tenn., Longstreet advances to, 114; occupied by S., 115 Stuart, Lieut.-Gen. James E. B., S.'s acquaintance with, at West Point, 154; Sheridan's defeat of, before Richmond, 154

Sturgeon, I. H., member of anti-Schofield committee from St. Louis to Washington, 58

Sturgis, Maj. Samuel D., commanding troops in Missouri, 37; junction with Lyon and Sigel, 38; assumes command after Lyon's death, 45-48; relinquishes command to Sigel, 47; resumes command, 47, 48

Suffrage, S.'s views on, 373-376; the negro and the right of, 373, 374, 376; in the South under reconstruction, 396 et seq., 419, 420; universal, 519, 520

Sullivan's Island, S. C., S.'s service at, 17-19; Southern hospitality on, 18, 19

Supply and demand, the law of, 533, 534

Survival of the fittest, the, 438

Switzerland, S. visits, 392

Tactics. See military strategy and tactics.

Tampa, Fla., military operations at, 23

Telegraphic code. See cipher despatches; military telegrams, etc. Tennessee, importance of combining with Missouri and Arkansas in a department, 60, 61; S.'s service in, 66,166, 238, 252 (see also Schofield and names of particular places) ; Federal arming of rebel prisoners captured in, 104; Burnside's disasters in, 114; Longstreet in, 114; anxiety in Washington concerning the situation in, 114 ; S.'s reputed inaction in East, 117; Hood's invasion of, and destruction of his army, 13,164, 252, 254, 300, 303 et seq., 313, 340, 343, 348; Sherman sends troops into, 163-165; operations and dispositions of the Army of the Cumberland in, 166; climatic influences on the campaign in, 167, 193, 302; Thomas's concentration and strength in, 190-199, 319, 336 (see also Nashville; Thomas); disasters to the State forces in, 191, 195; perilous situation in, 233; freed from secession, 257 ; the campaign in, its results and possibilities, 260, 300, 301, 315 et seq., 329, 338, 345 ; Thomas's report of the campaign, 277, 279 et seq.; S.'s report of the campaign, 283; Forrest's operations in, 308; reconstruction in, 370

Tennessee River, general military movements on, and Hood's crossing's of, 161, 165, 167, 192, 207, 251, 253, 255-258, 260, 289, 295, 300, 301, 304, 305, 316–:322, 325; Forrest's raid on, 165; Thomas's army in winter quarters on, 251 ; Thomas proposes to campaign on, 253, 255-257; Hood's advance from, 289; supposition as to Thomas's holding the line of the, 311, 312, 315

Tenure-of-Office Act, the, 411, 412

Territorial strategy, 358, 359, 517

Terry, Maj.-Gen. Alfred H., service on military court with Thomas, 277 ; trip by Grant and S. to visit, 294, 295; captures Fort Fisher, 346; in military conference at Cape Fear River, 346 ; visits S. at West Point, 446; relations with S.,