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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter II (search)
far more use for the law than for physics and astronomy, and little less than for the art and science of war. In June, 1857, I married Miss Harriet Bartlett, the second daughter of my chief in the department of philosophy. Five children were born to us, three of whom—two sons and one daughter—grew to maturity and survive their mother, who died in Washington soon after I was assigned to the command of the army, and was buried at West Point by the side of our first-born son, who had died in 1868, soon after I became Secretary of War. In the summer of 1860 came the end of my term of duty at West Point. My taste for service in the line of the army, if I ever had any, was gone; and all hope of promotion, if I ever had any, was still further away. I had been for more than four years about nineteenth first lieutenant in my regiment, without rising a single file. I was a man of family, and had already become quite bald in the service of my country. There was no captaincy in sight f
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XIII (search)
ave been such as to save their names from oblivion. Time works legitimate revenge, and makes all things even. When I was a boy at West Point I was courtmar-tialed for tolerating some youthful deviltry of my classmates, in which I took no part myself, and was sentenced to be dismissed. Thomas, then already a veteran soldier, was a member of the court, and he and one other were the only ones of the thirteen members who declined to recommend that the sentence be remitted. This I learned in 1868, when I was Secretary of War. Only twelve years later I was able to repay this then unknown stern denial of clemency to a youth by saving the veteran soldier's army from disaster, and himself from the humiliation of dismissal from command on the eve of victory. Five years later still, I had the satisfaction, by intercession with the President, of saving the same veteran general from assignment to an inferior command, and of giving him the military division to which my assignment had been or
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XV (search)
f 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 fieltract my special attention, as I was too much occupied with the important affairs of the time to think or care very much about anything that was already three years old. My relations with General Thomas during that time—the winter and spring of 1868-9, when he was, by my selection, president of a very important military court, with General Hancock and General Terry as the other members, and General Holt as the judge-advocate— were very cordial, at least on my part. He was my guest at a large
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXII (search)
d States has been appointed ad interim, and has notified me that he has accepted the appointment, I have no alternative but to submit, under protest, to superior force. McPherson's History of Reconstruction, pp. 261, 262. In 1866, 1867, and 1868 General Grant talked to me freely several times of his differences with Secretary Stanton. His most emphatic declaration on that subject, and of his own intended action in consequence, appears from the records to have been made after Stanton's re supposed, constituted the only vital issue involved in the impeachment trial. The following memorandum, made by me at the time, and now published with the consent of Mr. Evarts, explains the circumstances under which I became Secretary of War in 1868, and the connection of that event with the termination of the impeachment trial: memorandum May, 1868. In compliance with a written request from Mr. W. M. Evarts, dated Tuesday, April 21, 1868, 2 P. M., I called upon that gentleman in
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIII (search)
Chapter XXIII Assignment to the Department of the Missouri a cordial reception from former Opponents in St. Louis origin of the military school at Fort Riley funeral of General George H. Thomas death of General George G. Meade assigned to the Division of the Pacific a visit to Hawaii military men in the exercise of political power trouble with the Modoc Indians the Canby massacre. when I went into the War Office in 1868, the cordial greeting extended from all quarters was exceedingly gratifying to me, and, I thought, highly honorable to those gentlemen, especially in the Senate, who had so long opposed me, only one of whom, I believe, failed to call at the office and express a kindly welcome; and that one was so great a man, in his own estimation, I flattered myself that was the only reason he had not called to greet me. So when I returned to St. Louis in March, 1869, the good citizens of that place gave me a banquet and a most cordial welcome, in which all part
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXV (search)
officers who had graduated, or should graduate, either first or second from the Artillery School, or first, second, or third from the Infantry and Cavalry School: the same to appear with their names in the Army Register as long as such graduates should continue on the active or retired list of the army. . . . In August, 1886, after the passage of a bill by Congress, General Fitz-John Porter was restored to the army, as colonel, by President Cleveland. When I was in the War Department in 1868, General Porter had come to me with a request that I would present his case to the President, and recommend that he be given a rehearing. I declined to do so, on the ground that, in my opinion, an impartial investigation and disposition of his case, whatever were its merits, could not be made until the passions and prejudices begotten by the war had subsided much further than they had done at that time. In the course of conversation I told him that while I never permitted myself to form an
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXXI (search)
part in the closing operations of the war, instead of leaving me where nothing important remained to be done. It was he who paid me the high compliment of selecting me to conduct the operations which might be necessary to enforce the Monroe doctrine against the French army which had invaded Mexico. It was he who firmly sustained me in saving the people of Virginia from the worst effects of the congressional reconstruction laws. It was he who greeted me most cordially as Secretary of War in 1868, and expressed a desire that I might hold that office under his own administration. And, finally, it was he who promoted me to the rank of major-general in the regular army, the next day after his inauguration as President. It was a great disappointment to me to find only casual mention of my name in General Grant's Memoirs. But I was not only consoled, but moved to deep emotion when told by his worthy son, Colonel Frederick Dent Grant, that his father had not ceased up to the last day o
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
; the case of Fitz-John Porter and, 461, 462 Popular government, education the foundation of, 533 Porter, Adm. David D., trip by Grant and S. to visit, 294, 295; in military conference at Cape Fear River, 346; superintendent of Naval Academy, Annapolis, 439 Porter, Maj.-Gen., Fitz-John, sits in court-martial on S. at West Point, 241, 242; court-martial judgment on, reversed, 242; board of review in case of, 443; review of his case, 460-466; restored to the army, 460; appeals to S. in 1868, 460, 461; despatches to Burnside, 462 Porter, Col., Horace, mission from Grant to Sherman, 306 Posse Comitatus Act, the, 509 Potomac River, the, S.'s troops delayed in, 294, 346 Powder Spring Road, Ga., military operations on the, 135 Prairie Grove, Ark., battle of, 62-6??? Press, a false freedom of the, 425 Price, Maj.-Gen., Sterling, defeated by Lyon at Boonville, 37 Proctor, Redfield, Secretary of War, 423. See also War Department. Professional patriots, 539, 54