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August 29th (search for this): chapter 5
store peace. In addition to this, I wrote the governor a private letter urging him to issue his proclamation discouraging the Paola meeting and warning his people against any attempt to go into Missouri, and informing him I would issue an order forbidding armed men not in the regular military service from crossing the line. Sept. 4.—I received the governors reply that he would issue his proclamation as requested, and also asking permission to publish a letter which I had written him on August 29, in reply to one from him regarding these matters. This permission was granted. My order was also published declaring that the militia of Kansas and Missouri would be used only for the defense of their respective States; that they should not pass from one State into the other without express orders from the district commander; that armed bodies of men not belonging to the United States troops, or to the militia placed under the orders of the department commander by the governors of th
November (search for this): chapter 5
he other. I am willing to pledge my official position that those who support me now will support me in the execution of any policy the President may order. They are the real friends of the government. It is impossible for me to be blind to this fact, notwithstanding the existence, to some extent, of the factional feeling to which you allude. The improvement produced by the order was so decided that publication of the President's approval was thought unnecessary. It only became public through his letter of October 1, 1863, of which he gave a copy to the radical delegation. In September the governor of Missouri placed all the militia of the State, including those not in active service, under my command. I published orders intended to control their action and prevent interference with political meetings; also to secure freedom of voting at the coming election in November. Several militia officers guilty of such interference were dismissed, which produced a wholesome effect.
May 27th, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 5
ent of the Missouri. In his instructions of May 22, General Halleck said: You owe your present appointment entirely to the choice of the President himself. I have not, directly or indirectly, interfered in the matter. But I fully concur in the choice, and will give you all possible support and assistance in the performance of the arduous duties imposed upon you. A few days later I received the following significant letter from the President: executive Mansion, Washington, May 27, 1863. General J. M. Schofield: my dear Sir: Having relieved General Curtis and assigned you to the command of the Department of the Missouri, I think it may be of some advantage for me to state to you why I did it. I did not relieve General Curtis because of any full conviction that he had done wrong by commission or omission. I did it because of a conviction in my mind that the Union men of Missouri, constituting, when united, a vast majority of the whole people, have entered into a
August 31st (search for this): chapter 5
class you must judge from the facts I have stated and from the inclosed speech. To give tone and distinction to the meeting, General Lane offered a resolution calling upon the President to relieve you, affirming that there could be no safety in Kansas, no help for Kansas, unless this was done. . . . You will judge from the facts stated, from the course pursued by General Lane at Lawrence, and from his speech here, how far General Ewing is your friend or fit to command this district. On August 31, I started for the scene of the agitation. The following extracts from my journal reveal the situation: Sept. 2.—Reached Leavenworth at five o'clock A. M. Stopped at the Planters' Hotel; was called upon by Governor Carney and several of his political friends. Discussed at much length the condition of affairs in the District of the Border. Carney is an aspirant for the United States Senate. Intends to run against Lane. Desires to kill off Ewing, considering him a formidable rival,
October (search for this): chapter 5
er afterward manifested toward me, and which, with the like manifestations of approval from President Lincoln, are to me the most cherished recollections of my official career. The appreciation of my action in Washington was expressed by General Halleck in a letter dated July 7, 1863, in which he said: The promptness with which you sent troops to General Grant gave great satisfaction here; and by the President himself, in a letter to the Hon. Charles D. Drake and others, committee, dated October 5, 1863, in which he wrote: Few things have been so grateful to my anxious feelings as when, in June last, the local force in Missouri aided General Schofield to so promptly send a large general force to the relief of General Grant, then investing Vicksburg and menaced from without by General Johnston. It would have been impossible for me to send away more than a small part of those troops if I had not been able to replace them by Missouri militia. This General Curtis had probably been
September (search for this): chapter 5
for the scene of the agitation. The following extracts from my journal reveal the situation: Sept. 2.—Reached Leavenworth at five o'clock A. M. Stopped at the Planters' Hotel; was called upon by ssue an order forbidding armed men not in the regular military service from crossing the line. Sept. 4.—I received the governors reply that he would issue his proclamation as requested, and also asurport. No reply received from the general-in-chief up to this time (1 P. M., Sept. 5). . . . Sept. 6.—Lane failed to meet me at Kansas City, according to agreement. My correspondence with Governright. It is hardly possible that I will ever reach a point where both will commend me. . . . Sept. 8.—Went to Independence yesterday, in company with Genl. Ewing; . . . made a few remarks to quitrough his letter of October 1, 1863, of which he gave a copy to the radical delegation. In September the governor of Missouri placed all the militia of the State, including those not in active s
May 22nd (search for this): chapter 5
and of the Department of the Missouri troops sent to General Grant satisfaction of the President conditions on which Governor Gamble would continue in office anti slavery views Lincoln on emancipation in Missouri trouble following the Lawrence massacre a visit to Kansas, and the party quarrel there mutiny in the State militia Repressive measures a Revolutionary plot. on May 24, 1863, I relieved General Curtis in command of the Department of the Missouri. In his instructions of May 22, General Halleck said: You owe your present appointment entirely to the choice of the President himself. I have not, directly or indirectly, interfered in the matter. But I fully concur in the choice, and will give you all possible support and assistance in the performance of the arduous duties imposed upon you. A few days later I received the following significant letter from the President: executive Mansion, Washington, May 27, 1863. General J. M. Schofield: my dear Sir
5th (search for this): chapter 5
acre and the Paola movement appeared in the Leavenworth papers of yesterday; also my order forbidding armed citizens from crossing into Missouri. The governor's proclamation did not appear according to promise; probably he may have decided to defer it until after the Paola meeting, as a means of making capital against Lane. A private letter from one of Governor Carney's advisers was received yesterday (5th), dated the 3d, but evidently written in the evening of the 4th or morning of the 5th, which indicated that Carney does not intend to publish a proclamation, for the reason that Lane desires to force him to do it. . . . Went to Westport yesterday. Met several of the leading loyal citizens; all agree that Genl. Ewing's order No. 11 is wise and just—in fact a necessity. I have yet to find the first loyal man in the border counties who condemns it. They are also warm in their support of Genl. Ewing, and deprecate his removal. I am satisfied he is acting wisely and efficient
May 24th, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 5
Chapter V In command of the Department of the Missouri troops sent to General Grant satisfaction of the President conditions on which Governor Gamble would continue in office anti slavery views Lincoln on emancipation in Missouri trouble following the Lawrence massacre a visit to Kansas, and the party quarrel there mutiny in the State militia Repressive measures a Revolutionary plot. on May 24, 1863, I relieved General Curtis in command of the Department of the Missouri. In his instructions of May 22, General Halleck said: You owe your present appointment entirely to the choice of the President himself. I have not, directly or indirectly, interfered in the matter. But I fully concur in the choice, and will give you all possible support and assistance in the performance of the arduous duties imposed upon you. A few days later I received the following significant letter from the President: executive Mansion, Washington, May 27, 1863. General J.
June (search for this): chapter 5
incoln, are to me the most cherished recollections of my official career. The appreciation of my action in Washington was expressed by General Halleck in a letter dated July 7, 1863, in which he said: The promptness with which you sent troops to General Grant gave great satisfaction here; and by the President himself, in a letter to the Hon. Charles D. Drake and others, committee, dated October 5, 1863, in which he wrote: Few things have been so grateful to my anxious feelings as when, in June last, the local force in Missouri aided General Schofield to so promptly send a large general force to the relief of General Grant, then investing Vicksburg and menaced from without by General Johnston. It would have been impossible for me to send away more than a small part of those troops if I had not been able to replace them by Missouri militia. This General Curtis had probably been unable to do because of the unfortunate antagonism between him and the State government; and perhaps th
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