The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-06-02

MAJoR-GENERAL J.. NJ. ScHoFIELD -
John McAllister Schofeid was born In Chaus.
,auaua county, New York, September %,
ISL. At the age of twelve. years he re-,
moved with his fathers family to Illinois !.
and from that State, where he received his.
urinary education, he was entered as ca.
let at the Military Academy atWest Point
where he was graduated in 1853, receiving
nj that time brevet as second lieutenant
in the second regiment of artillery. He
was stationed for two yearsaat Fort Moul-
trie, SC, and subsequently at Fort Cas-
sin, Florida. Afterward he was ordered to-
West Point as Instructor in Natural Philo-
sophy, and filled that position for Ave years.
He was in 1860 granted leave of alb,
sence to occupy the chair of Natural
Philosophy in Washington University, ST..
Louis, and was SO engaged when the
late war broke out. By an order
from the War Department he was detailed
to muster into service the Missouri troops,
and was appointed major in the First Mis-
souri, infantry. His rank in the regular
army was then fret lieutenant, and in May,
1861, he was appointed captain. After the
battle of Bonneville he joined General Lyon
as assistant Acknowledgement and chief OF
staff, and was with him when he fell Mt the
battle of Wilson'S Creek. Major Sturgis, in
his report of that battle to Major-General
Fremont, speaks of the then Major Schofeld
as follows: Wherever the battle most
6ercely ragged, there was General Lyon and
there, too, was Major Schofeld, his principal
staff officer. The GOODNESS and equanimity
with which he moved from point to point,
CARRYING orders, was theme of universal
conversation. cannot speak too highly
of the invaluable services Major Scho-
field rendered by the confidence his ex-
ample inspired Major Schofeld was
commissioned brigadier-general of volun-
teers November 81, 1861, and assigned to
the command of the militia Of Missouri,
authorized to be raised for service during
the war. When General Halleck went to
Pittsburg Landing about four-ffths of the
State was placed under command of General
Schofeld, and on June /, 1862, the District
of Missouri, comprising the entire State,
was assigned to him. In October he re-
ceiyed command of the Army Of the
Frontier, comprising the troops Of the or
ganized forces of the rebels back to Che val
ley of the Arkansas, defeating Hindman
bctoucT IL dt huy oh iiiot heoA o@ .'ANS>S'
Ark, and pursuing him beyond the Boston
mountains. In November, 1862, he was
commissioned major general of volunteers,
and in 1864 brigadier-general in the re-
gular army, and in 1865 o brevet major,
general, and subsequently was elevated to
the full rank. After the close Of the war,
Major-General Schofeld was sent to the
southern States on tour of inquiry, to
ascertain the condition of things there, and
after short absence returned ito Washing
ton and reported the result Of his examina:-
ton. When, May 2, 1861 Congress passed.
the bill entitled g An act for the more effl-
cient government of the States lately in re-
bellion," by which the South was- divided
into military districts, Major eneral seho-
field was appointed to the command; OF the
First District.-Ne,o Yorhc. Tribune.