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General Schofield's policy when left in command Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in force Davis's line of flight from Charlotte, N.C. Wade Hampton's course of conduct Fate of the cabinet officers Bragg, Wheeler, and Cooper Issuing paroles to Johnston and his army Greensborough in my district Going there with Schofield Hardee meets and accompanies us Comparing memories We reach Johnston's headquarters Condition of his army Our personal interview with him The numbers of his troops His opinion of Sherman's army Of the murder of Lincoln Governor Morehead's home The men in gray march homeward Incident of a flag The Salisbury prison site Treatment of prisoners of war Local government in the interim Union men Elements of new strife The negroes Household service Wise dealing with the labor question No money Death of manufactures Necessity the mother of invention Uses of adversity Peace welcomed Visit to Greene's battlefield at Guilford-Old-Court-House.
With General Schofield's arrival began my close association with him which was to last until the end of the war. In person he was a solid, rather stout man, of medium height, with a round bald head and long black beard coming down on his breast. He had a reputation for scientific tastes, and had, after his graduation at West Point, been instructor in astronomy there.
One morning we were told that the transports would begin going back with us that afternoon, the first that left taking the sick. Andrews and I, true to our old prison practices, resolved to be among those on the first boat. We slipped through the guards and going up town, went straight to Major General Schofield's headquarters and solicited a pass to go on the first boat the steamer "Thorn."
The march in a dark night made it proper to leave reasonable intervals between the brigades, and I was still waiting with Casement's brigade, and had not destroyed the pontoon bridge, when, at midnight, I got Schofield's dispatch of 10.20, which had come through in less than half the time other messages had taken, under his eager orders to force the horses through at speed.
At the same time Garrard was ordered to occupy the trenches on our left, while Schofield's whole army moved to the extreme right, and extended the line toward East Point. These changes were effected during the 2d and 3d days of August, when General McCook came in and reported the actual results of his cavalry expedition.
General Schofield had been feeling his way southward with Wagner's and Morgan's divisions, and on the 19th Sherman ordered him to move by the most direct route to Alpine, overtaking the column which was marching on the west side of the Chattooga valley, as I was doing on the east. On the 21st Schofield's column reached Alpine, and he rode forward to Sherman's headquarters at Gaylesville.
A characteristic instance of the exercise of these traits occurred in connection with the Missouri troubles just referred to. General Schofield's course in command of his department proved satisfactory, and he had been nominated for a Major-General's commission.
The danger lay not in entering the house, but in remaining in it, for although the roof had fallen in, yet the second floor had not burned through and was in momentary danger of collapse. The spectators did not know what was in Code Schofield's mind until he had burst into the danger zone. Then, with the blanket wound about his arm and shielding his face he plunged toward the open doorway.
"Ten thousand dollars her full value." "And you bought the Charming Lass with that, didn't you?" "Yes that and two thousand that dad had saved. Why?" "Old Jed Martin said something about that, too." Schofield's face paled slightly and his mouth closed tightly, exhibiting the salience of his jaw. "So that's it, eh? Thinks I ran her under for the insurance the old barnacle.
Sherman had captured the capital of South Carolina, and in his movement northward his left wing had followed the railroad from Columbia toward Charlotte, N. C, as far as Winnsborough, forty miles, for the purpose of making a permanent break in that line of communication before turning his columns eastward toward Cheraw and Fayetteville on his way to Goldsborough, the rendezvous he had fixed for his junction with Schofield's army.
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