id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 21417 Schofield, John McAllister Forty-Six Years in the Army .txt text/plain 185364 7921 64 Army and the War Department--General Grant's Special Powers--His General Sherman to his place in command of the Military Division be, as General Sherman states, to get command of one of the armies, unite my corps with General Thomas's army at Nashville, when I Besides, I was commanding General Thomas's army, operating commander of a brigade in line wait for orders from the general-inchief before commencing to fire on the advancing enemy. when I asked for and received orders to report with the Twentythird Corps to General Thomas in Tennessee, I felt in the fullest and the orders sent to Thomas by General Grant and the War Department did not receive any orders from General Thomas, at any time, upon timely orders from General Thomas for the battle of December 16, commanding general of the army, and the War Department have been "For the first time the general actually does command the army." ./cache/21417.txt ./txt/21417.txt