The National tribune., 1893-04-13
REoRGANIzaTIoN. ETC.

On the 11th of December, 1868, Maj.-Gen
Frank p. Blair, jr, u. S. Army. who had com
manded the Fifteenth Corps since the goth Of
October, 1863. was superseded in command by
Maj Gen. John a. Logan. u. S. Army. Gen.
Blair with his Assistant Adjutant-General and
personal staff was directed to report for orders
to Mai Gen. Grant, commanding the Military
Division of the Mississippi. He was subse-
quently, on April 90. 1864. assigned by the
President to the command of the Seventeenth
Corps. and assumed command of that corps on
May 5, 1864. Gen. Sherman. in his order re-
lieging Gen. Blair, "avais himself of this
opportunity to thank Gen. Blair for the zeal,
intelligence courage. aud skill with which lie
has handled tho corps during the eventiul
period he has commanded it,"
Mai Gen John A. Logan was born in J tck.
sou County. H., Feb. $, 1926. lie first entered
the military service of the United States
| the outbreak of the war with Mexico as a
| private in the lst ILL.,. aud was promoted First
| Lieutenant and Quartermaster Of that rcgi-
| ment. After the close Of the war he returned
| to Illinois, and was in 1S40 elected Clerk of
the Court of his native County. In 1852 he
was admitted to the bar, and soon obtained
| popularity and success in his profession. In
| 1853, and again in 1860, he elected to
| Congress and in 1861 resigned his seat to enter
| the army On the 18th Of September, 1861, he
was commissioned Colonel Of the 3lst ILL.,, and
| participated with that reg ment in the battles
| of Belmont, and in the siege and capture OF
| Fort Donclson Tenn, where he was wounded
| On the 22d of March, 1862 he WAS appointed
! Brigadier General of Volunteers and i'll the
advance upon and siege of Corinth Miss, he
commanded the First Division, Reserve Corps.
| of the Army of the Tennessee. On Nov. 20,
| 1862 lie was promoted Major General of Vol
unteers, and was in command Of the Third
| Division of the Seventeenth Corps through
| out the V;cksburg campaign.
He remained in command Of the Fifteenth
| Corps until the death OF Gen, James b. McPhcr-
SON. July 90, 1864, whom nc succeeded him in
com mand Of the Army Of the Tennessee, where,
in the language OF Gen. sherman, lie " nobly
| sustained his reputation" He was shortly re-
| lieved, however, by Gea. Howard, and returned
| to the command OF the corps, which he retained
| until after the fall of Atlanta. He was absent
| from his command during'' the March to the
Sea-" using his influence at home in the Presi-
dental campaign OF 1864. and did not rejoin
tho corps until after the arrival OF Sherman's s
army at Savannah. He remained in COM
mand during the Carolinas campaign, and in
Nav, 1865, succeeded Gen. Howard in command
of tho Army of the Tennessee. He resigned
his commission in the army Aug. II, 1865, and
was elected as Representative to the 40th and
| AIst Congresses aud in 1871 as Senator from
the State of Illinois, serving continuously, with
| the exception Of two years. from March, 1877,
to March, 1879. He died at Washington City
| c.. the 26th Of December, 1886. Gen. Logan
was very promineut-in fact the leader-in the
organization of the Grand Army Of the Re.
public, and was one OF It's carly Commanders
| in-Chief.
On the Goth day Of December, 1863. the
Third Division of the Fifteenth Corps-Brig..
Gen. J. nj. Tuttle com,nanding-wa trans
ferred to the Sixteenth Corps, AS the First
| Division of that corps, aud on the same day the