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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVI (search)
an, and Sherman and Thomas the effect of Jefferson Davis's speech on Sherman Rawlins's reported opposition to the march, and Grant's final judgment on it. durinom the time it was first submitted to him, and credits his chief of staff, General Rawlins, with having been very bitterly opposed to it, and with having appealed toactually did. It was dictated by clear military foresight, whether of Grant or Rawlins. How far world-wide approval of Sherman's plans after their brilliant successudy and mature consideration. I can only say that the opinion ascribed to General Rawlins, as opposed to General Grant's, was in my judgment the better of the two; and that General Rawlins, though he had not the advantage of an early military education, was a man of great natural ability, and had learned much from more than thred at the beginning must have very largely, if not entirely, disappeared. General Rawlins was my immediate successor in the War Department, and would, I doubt not,
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXII (search)
oted and loyal citizens of the republic, and thoroughly imbued with the fundamental principle of subordination of the military to the civil power. With General Grant my relations while in the War Department were of the most satisfactory character. As a candidate for the Presidency, and as President-elect, he naturally desired to be as free as possible from the current duties of his office as general of the army, and he was absent from Washington much of the time, his chief of staff, General Rawlins, remaining there to promulgate orders in his name. Thus it devolved upon me to exercise all the functions of commander-in-chief of the army—functions which it is usually attempted to divide among three,—the President, the Secretary of War, and the general-in-chief,—without any legal definition of the part which belongs to each. Of course the machine ran very smoothly in the one case, though there had been much friction in the other. In compliance with the wish of General Grant, I <
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
Lawrence, 78 Quinine, 256 R Railroads, use of, in time of war, 526 Raleigh, N. C., Sherman's march to, 327, 334; S.'s headquarters at, 368, 371, 379; refugees prohibited to congregate in, 369; Grant at, 370 Rally Hill, Tenn., Hood takes possession of, 209 Ramsey, Asst. Adjt.-Gen. Robert H., battle of Franklin, 264 Randon, Marshal, French Minister of War, courtesies to S., 392 Rank, questions of, in the Atlanta campaign, 124, 136, 137, 150, 151, 156, 157, 160, 161 Rawlins, Maj.-Gen. John A., opposes the march to the sea, 323; military genius, 323; Secretary of War, 323; Grant's chief of staff, 420 Reasoning faculties, the cultivation of the, 523 Rebels, in Missouri, 57 Reconstruction, S.'s duties in connection with, 276; the problem, course, and evils of, 353-356, 364, 365, 367-377, 418, 419, 543; attitude of President Johnson concerning, 354, 374, 376, 395, 420 Rehearings in courts-martial, 464 Reno, Admiral, S.'s interviews with, 389 Rep