John Schofield

John Schofield was a Union general in the American Civil War. He was born in 1831 in Ohio. He graduated from the United States Military Acadamy in 1853. He fought mostly in the Western Theater of the Civil War. After the war, he was Secretary of War from June 1868 to March 1869. He was the commanding general of the U.S. army from 1888 to 1895, when he retired. He died in 1905.

John Schofield Media

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  John Schofield during the Civil War

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  Official U.S. Army Chiefs of Staff portrait, by Stephen W. Shaw, 1874

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  Georgia Wells Kilbourne, the second Mrs Schofield

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  Emma Kilbourne

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  Union 2nd lt rank insignia

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  Union 2nd lt rank insignia

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  Union army 1st lt rank insignia

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  Union army maj rank insignia

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  Union army cpt rank insignia