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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XI (search)
had made this previous mistake a matter of past history, and hence it was lost sight of in view of the imminent danger afterward supposed to exist at Nashville, just as the brilliant victory at Nashville was accepted as demonstrating the wisdom of all that had gone before, even including Sherman's division of his army between himself and Thomas before his march to the sea. Such is the logic of contemporaneous military history! In my long conversations with General Grant on the steamer Rhode Island in January, 1865, I explained to him fully the error into which he had been led in respect to Thomas's action or non-action at Nashville in December, and he seemed to be perfectly satisfied on that point. But he did not ask me anything about what had occurred before the battle of Franklin, and hence I did not tell him anything. In connection with the action of General Thomas previous to the battle of Franklin, the following instructions from General Sherman on October 31 are important
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVIII (search)
subordinates are alike responsible, the military system becomes as nearly perfect as possible. While the transports were detained by an ice blockade in the Potomac, I joined General Grant at Fort Monroe, and went with him on 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 opies. Grant would not hold any commission or command without full authority to perform the duties belonging to it. In his Memoirs he modestly refrains from relating the most important part of that action, as he told it to me on the war-steamer Rhode Island the next January. Before accepting the commission from President Lincoln, as Grant describes, he said in substance that if it meant that he was to exercise actual command of all the armies, without any interference from the War Department, he
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
37 Cane Hill, Ark., Blunt at, 62 Cape Fear River, trip by Grant and S. from Hampton Roads to, 294, 295 (see also Rhode Island); military conference at, 346; military operations at, 346 Cape May, N. J., interview between Seward and S. at, 382nts, and measures for relieving him at Nashville, 192, 198, 237-240, 255, 260, 295, 324, 325; interview with S. on the Rhode Island, 198, 294, 295, 346, 361, 362; despatch to S. from before Vicksburg, 232, 233; advises Sherman to dispose of Hood, 237military operations near, 124-129; battle of, 140, 141, 162 Res adjudicata, 463 Revenge, legitimate, 241, 242 Rhode Island, the, interview between Grant and S. on board, 198, 294, 295, 346, 361, 362 Richmond, Va., defeat of Stuart by Shermmanding the Twenty-third Corps, 190; ignorance of Thomas's actual resources, 194; interview with Grant on the steamer Rhode Island, 198, 294, 295, 346, 361, 362 ; on the duty of a general to command in person, 199, 200; given free hand by Thomas, 20