Forty-Six Years In The Army

In Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield Union Army general and post-Civil War commander of the U.S. Army provides provocative views of General William T. Shermans campaign against Atlanta and army operations in the late nineteenth century. In the postwar years he became secretary of war under Andrew Johnson and he held various commands until 1888 when he succeeded General Philip Sheridan as commander of the army. As William M. Ferraro notes in his foreword Schofield offers valuable insight not only into Shermans campaign and Civil War battles but also into such postwar concerns as Reconstruction diplomacy Indian affairs the sensational case at West Point involving black cadet Johnson C. Whittaker the Fitz-John Porter court martial and labor unrest.