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Harper's Weekly, June 13, 1868, page 372

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THE NEW SECRETARY OF WAR
On the announcement of the vote on Impeachment, and discovery that the Senate had sustained the President by acquitting him of the charge of illegally removing Secretary Stanton, that officer promptly withdrew from the Department, leaving it in charge of the Adjutant-General. President Johnson nominated General Schofield as Secretary of War, and the Senate confirmed him.

General Schofield’s war record is well known to our readers. He was the commander of a wing of Sherman’s army in the campaign of Atlanta, and the leader of the force which captured Wilmington and pushed into the interior of North Carolina to meet Sherman. Since the war he has been in command in Virginia. Of his political principles little is known at present.



GENERAL JOHN M. SCHOFIELD,
THE NEW SECRETARY OF WAR
June 13, 1868 page 372

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