J.M. Schofield, A.L.S. St Louis, Mo, Nov. 26, 1869 to : Genl N.L. Anderson, Cincinnati, Ohio

J.M. Schofield, A.L.S. St Louis, Mo, Nov. 26, 1869 to : Genl N.L. Anderson, Cincinnati, Ohio

St. Louis, Mo. November 26, 1869

English

[8] p. ; 20 x 13 cm.

MSS L1241.39

Schofield writes regarding Anderson's proposal to unite the Ohio Society (Society of the Army of the Ohio) with the Cumberland Society (Society of the Army of the Cumberland). Schofield opposes the plan under the terms proposed, which he describes as unfair. Schofield feels that it would be beneath the dignity of the Ohio Society to merge with the Cumberland under the current plan since the Army of the Ohio predated and was larger than the Cumberland Army. He advises waiting until the two societies can combine under terms of equality. Schofield was a member of the Cumberland Society.
Schofield says regarding the two armies, "The Cumberland officers no doubt forget that while Nashville was the end, virtually, of their service and their "crowning victory", the Army of the Ohio made after that one of the most remarkable and successful movements and campaigns of the war, doing much more fighting, losing many more men, and gaining several victories hardly less important than Nashville."
J.M. Schofield was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the Civil War serving extensively in the Western front in Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee. He was Secretary of War under Pres. Andrew Johnson from June 1868 to March 1869 and was then appointed commander of the Department of Missouri by newly elected President Ulysses S. Grant.
Alexander Ferguson Anderson collection.

American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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