New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-28
THE REuoYAL OF GENERAL THOMAS.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette ON Mon
day last printed the following dispatch from us WASH
cnrraannndanfi

THE Cincinnati Commercial Gazette on Mon
dav las, printed the following dispatch from its wash
ingtcn correspondent;
military paper OF great interest the existence t, GI
teen years, has Just Deen found IS {ne ON pm
cially attested copy OF the order uaTe''hg me
battle of Nashville and assigning General schoned 10
the command It was found AMONG te Work Connected
with the publication of the war records. IL
f"s RnGsF P% issaIPGa
tions from LieutenantG Grant TO GeneTa Ha
and before it could be elegrapned to Nashville 1t Is
Ieck on paper with the Army headquarters letter
head and fs ajtested official by Colonel KelOn IL was
tered in tue official records General Halleok however
n aid mot n hi. psass and d Hos oA
it to go into the records A few hours S leT
General Haeck TO that effect. Theatter. however had
aready suspended in the very practical manner stated
or asa SfSTra it was received from cry Point
i would have been ~ eeSr@2eSdd 70 sn 10
pend t and the change it directed would nave been ac
compshed In this case as IS readily seen, no oItr o.
susnanson would have restored the SITUATION Inc btat
ment that such an order had been gwen Dy
General Grant, and been withheld by General
tnopdence Of The Cincinnati Gaseite in 1869 1t was
%6Sh GENERAL Ee HaecS himself gave Thomas
in San Francisco, when the lalter reIe'1H tne ,5
now 'I Motel writer Of military fiction. denied Gen
eTai Uaecks statement and furnished partial extracts
from the recors, which seemed to prove tnat Sepe[
Eaiieek could not have pocketed the order Whloh nc
10 the confusion of General Badeau and
few military uOvests Of less no e VINO haVe
helped him at he derias tee o.as ns pa 'g sec
now among tae pa lers Oh GehSta, az a. ,ie
which have been furnished y ma amy LOT US VI and
puhIies -iOB OF the war ierords- luis 'h'eies''"s ~
fist,rie. paper g sf'iowsi
UKADouARTrRs OF ARMY. WAR DEPARrNKNTl
ApjLIAsT. GRSBRATs OFFICE I
wAsHEGfOS u. G., December o. lo64.>
dsoce With the following dispatch from Lieutenant
Please tf'1s an sh1sed n eommand Thomas should
be dierd 70 turn all dispatches received since tAs
battle Of r. ~hAnn W '0"ONou IieutenantG GENERAL -
mo p,,,.Dt orders, Flrst-That Majof-Genersl ]. NJ
schoaed command Of az loops IN the departments
leSonS That Major General George H. Thomas report 70
tST y sRS ssr sp sysf % ABOVE sq all
signed by order OF the % J. C. KELrox A A C.
orno,e are two very marked points OF difference be
tween mis- paper and the which has been generally
accepted Tor some years past as copy VI nced
General schohold in command Of AL troops IN t ne
f nhiS and the tennessee Instead has been
supposed. of those 10 the tnn4eaIn1 ce aIcpe
Thomas from all command put on him the addlt,opa
humiliation Of reporting to bis former suooruhste 10
graph of the Presdents instruction were at the request
OF General Grant who had telesrapheo oecre'ay 9''"
ton two days before as follows:
Won roahlv saw nv order TO Thomas 20 attack Ifhe does
not 80 oRRty bo wSss su FsSn sn"
And IA allowing the purpose OF Grant 10 1orce the
removal OF Thomas is pertinent 10 ada that te
Telegram 10 stanton sent few hours aief one na
been received by Grant from Thomas, III whch inc
latter said Z: -.
will make tn necessary disposition and attack HOO az
once acTeeaby your orders though Deleve ~ VIII
hazardous small focs OF cavalry no" al my
Asevery one now knows, that attack was prevented
nv a see storm, which made IL Impossible Tor men or
horses 10 move. The draft of the above paper Wnch
has hereiOfOr been accepted as correct was
srcm notes In General Halecks beadquarters, when
these we're established at LoulsylIe. was
nublis he'd IN answer to denial authorized by Gene az
Badean ana after It's publication Badcan continued ms
attempts 10 dscredt the declaration OF bheck ls any
snch uaper had Deen pOcketed. For purposes VI COLI
parison II Is herewith Produced:
WAR DEPARTMENT. ADJUTAyTGENERALs OIFIcB}
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. 1854
The o"slng dspach having been received from Leuten
General Grant <couo-ot rrho,oaa,
at once and placing General Scbohed In cOmiano
Firsthat Major General 81 Schoneid relieve AZ once
ensra a. Thomas, in command Of De parDsDt anu
Army OF the Cumberland al oaoid
A orders and received by Linn since INC oA1s Y"
Franklin ,,u..,-,,,., n
tSignedl . T. H. iO""']"D' n " -