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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XV (search)
apse of time since the event spoken of in that article is so great that I feel some hesitation in answering your letter and the article from the Democrat as I might do if I had access to the archives at Washington; but, writing from memory, I think I can say with great positiveness there was never any despatch from you to me, or from you to any one in Washington, disparaging General Thomas's movements at Nashville. On the contrary, my recollection is that when I met you on your way to Wilmington, N. C., subsequent 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 bet
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVIII (search)
n the war-steamer Rhode Island to Cape Fear River, where we met General Terry and Admiral Porter, discussed the military situation, and decided on the general plan of operations for the capture of the defenses of Cape Fear River and the city of Wilmington, and subsequent operations. On our return to Fort Monroe, I proceeded to Washington, and sailed with the advance of the Twenty-third Corps, arriving at the mouth of Cape Fear River on February 9, 1865, where we joined General Terry, who with two divisions had already captured Fort Fisher. I was then assigned to command the new department of North Carolina. We turned the defenses of Cape Fear River by marching round the swamps, and occupied Wilmington with little loss; then we captured Kinston, after a pretty sharp fight of three days, and occupied Goldsboroa on March 21, within one day of the time indicated by Sherman, from Laurel Hill, N. C., March 8, for our junction at Goldsboroa. General Sherman, who had been delayed by his ba
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
. (see also Georgia; Sherman); absence from the field during Hood's raid in Sherman's rear, 325; interview with Sherman at Gaylesburg, 326; seeks permission to join Stanley, 326; as a decoy at Franklin, 343, 344; captures Kinston, 346; occupies Wilmington, 346; commands the center of Sherman's army, 346; occupies Goldsboroa, 346; commanding Department of North Carolina, 346, 351, 360, 367-377; apprehends guerrilla warfare, 350, 351; share in the Sherman-Johnston negotiations, 351-353, 360; proviof expulsion of Union families, 93 Williams, J. E., letter from S. to, June 1, 1863, 74, 75 Williamsport, Tenn., proposal to obstruct roads at, 211; troops ordered to Franklin from, 217 Will's Valley, military movements via, 317 Wilmington, N. C., trip by Grant and S. to, 294, 295; military operations at, 346; capture of, 346 Wilson, Maj.-Gen. James H., operations on Duck River, 206, 208, 209, 211-214, 217; urges immediate retreat to Franklin, 210; to organize his cavalry force,