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of 1850 killed. $500 wounded ana
about roo prisoners. The entire loss
of the Union army in the battle was
1900. This campaign, as is well
known, was ended by the decisive vic
tory gained by General Thomas near
Nashville on December 1916, in which
General Schofeld participated with
credit. In January, 1868, the Army of
the Ohio, under command of General
Schofeld, was transported with all its
material from Clifton, Tex, to Wash
ington. in fourteen days, and trans
ferred to North Carolina by Febru-
airy s.
On March IS, 1865, Congress, in rec
IGNITION of his gallant and meritorious
services in the battle of Franklin, be-
slowed upon General sSchofeld the
brevet rank of major general in the
regular army. He was present at the
surrender of the confederate army
under General Joseph E. Johnston at
Durham s Station, North Carolina, on
April 26, 1865. and by direction of
General Sherman the execution of the
military convention of capitulation was
! intrusted to him.
In November, 1865, President Lin
I coin ordered General Sehofeld on
/ mission to Europe in relation to the
presence of European troops on the
| American continent. The report of
General Schoield had great weight in
| the further action of the administra
ton in maintaining the firm front
which finally resulted in France leav-
| ing Mexican soil.
] IN 1919 aa tod
| Secretary of War, and continued to
discharge the duties of that Office until
March IA, 1869. He was promoted to
the rank of major general IN the reg
ular army on March 4, 1869. while act
ing secretary of war. He was in COM
mand of the Department of the Mis-
souri, from March 20, 1869, to Nav 3,
| 1870. when he became commander of
| the military division Of the Pacific
| While commanding the division of the
! Pacific he was made a special commits
sioner to the Hawaiian Islands by the
| President. and remained on that duty
| from December 80, 1872, to April,
1873. He became superintendent of
| the Military Academy at West Point
in July, 1876, and remained there until
January 81. 1881 On the last named
date he was ordered to command the
military division of the gulf. That di-
!! vision being discontinued. on May 9,
| 1881, he obtained leave of absence for
a year and spent the year in European
travel. Returning home, he was as
signed to the military division of the
Pacific on October Is. 1882, and con
| tinued as the head of that division
until November /, 1888, when he sue
| eeeded Lieutenant General Sheridan in
command of the division of the Mis-
! souri,. He performed the duties Of the
head Of this important division until
| April S, 1856, when General Sheridan
became the commanding general of the
army. General Schofield was then as
signed to the command of the division
| Of the Atlantic and the Department of
the East, which he held until Novem-
Der il, 1sss.
On August II. 1ssS, he was ordered
/ 70 Washington by the President as the
| commanding general Of the army BY
special act Of Congress he received the
rank of lieutenant general on Febru-
arv :. 1895.
Colonel Sehofield was married twice.
! He Is survived by his second wife, who
was Miss Georgia Kilbourne Of Keo-
| kuk. Iowa. whom he married in 1891.
The daughter who was with him when
he died was born in 1897.
| General Sehofeld divided the time
after retirement between Bar Harbor
and St Augustine, In 1897 he wrote
ont his war history under the title Of
" Forty-six Years in the Army