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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
sed to offer him. To this I answered that, after the agreement with General Grant that he would notify me from Washington, I could not with propriety press the matter, but if General Buell should be assigned to me specifically I was prepared to assign him to command all the troops on the Mississippi River from Cairo to Natchez, comprising about three divisions, or the equivalent of a corps d'armee. General Grant never afterward communicated to me on the subject at all; and I inferred that Mr. Stanton, who was notoriously vindictive in his prejudices, would not consent to the employment of these high officers. General Buell, toward the close of the war, published a bitter political letter, aimed at General Grant, reflecting on his general management of the war, and stated that both Generals Canby and Sherman had offered him a subordinate command, which he had declined because he had once out-ranked us. This was not true as to me, or Canby either, I think, for both General Canby and I
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 23 (search)
t might know the history of each bale. But Mr. Stanton, who surely was an able lawyer, changed alltured, viz., thirty-one thousand bales. Mr. Stanton staid in Savannah several days, and seemed lry. I had heard such a rumor, and advised Mr. Stanton, before becoming prejudiced, to allow me toa sympathy of a different sort from that of Mr. Stanton, which was not of pure humanity, but of poll to all others, politically and socially. Mr. Stanton seemed desirous of coming into contact with room up-stairs in Mr. Green's house, where Mr. Stanton and Adjutant-General Townsend took down the Up to this time I was present, and, on Mr. Stanton's intimating that he wanted to ask some que H. W. Halleck. There is no doubt that Mr. Stanton, when he reached Sa. vannah, shared these tway one white man from the ranks. During Mr. Stanton's stay in Savannah we discussed this negro All that I now propose to assert is, that Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War, saw these orders in the [1 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
t surrounded and in your absolute power. Mr. Stanton, in stating that my orders to General Stoneother purposes. Even now I don't know that Mr. Stanton wants Davis caught, and as my official pape, Major-General commanding. P. S.--As Mr. Stanton's most singular paper has been published, Iwas in possession of the second bulletin of Mr. Stanton, published in all the Northern papers, wither-dispatch that I had seen his dispatch to Mr. Stanton, of April 26th, embraced in the second bullent, especially of the two war bulletins of Mr. Stanton, he volunteered to say that he knew of neit them till seen in the newspapers, and that Mr. Stanton had shown neither to him nor to any of his similar assurances to me afterward, and, as Mr. Stanton made no friendly advances, and offered no wr. Stanton's neighbor, always insisted that Mr. Stanton had been frightened by the intended assassiach member of the cabinet. As I approached Mr. Stanton, he offered me his hand, but I declined it [2 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 24: conclusion — military lessons of the War. (search)
d Twelfth Corps--General Hooker, twenty-three thousand men — from the East to Chattanooga, eleven hundred and ninety-two miles in seven days, in the fall of 1863; and that of the Army of the Ohio--General Schofield, fifteen thousand men — from the valley of the Tennessee to Washington, fourteen hundred miles in eleven days, en route to North Carolina in January, 1865, are the best examples of which I have any knowledge, and reference to these is made in the report of the Secretary of War, Mr. Stanton, dated November 22, 1865. Engineer troops attached to an army are habitually employed in supervising the construction of forts or field works of a nature more permanent than the lines used by the troops in motion, and in repairing roads and making bridges. I had several regiments of this kind that were most useful, bat as a rule we used the infantry, or employed parties of freedmen, who worked on the trenches at night while the soldiers slept, and these in thin rested by day. Habitual