Schofield, John McAllister

Life Span
to
    Full name
    John McAllister Schofield
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    2
    No. of Children
    6
    Family
    James Schofield (father), Caroline McAllister (mother), Harriet Bartlett (first wife, 1857), Georgia Kilbourne (second wife, 1891)
    Education
    West Point (US Military Academy)
    Occupation
    Military
    Educator
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Baptist
    Government
    Johnson Administration (1865-69)
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)
    Union Army
    US military (Post-Civil War)

    John McAllister Schofield (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    Thanks in part to Missouri friends, Schofield was nominated brigadier general of volunteers and assigned to command the Missouri Enrolled Militia in November 1861. Raising and equipping this force, authorized only for state defense, occupied Schofield until April 1862. A factional dispute in Missouri between "radicals," desiring immediate emancipation and punitive military actions, and "conservatives," seeking gradual emancipation and military restraint, complicated Schofield's position. More problems arose from Confederate incursions across the border with Arkansas. Given command of the "Army of the Frontier," Schofield campaigned in southwestern Missouri and Arkansas from October 1862 to April 1863. Although he had kept Missouri relatively quiet and supplied needed troops for the Vicksburg campaign, radicals defeated his nomination as major general of volunteers in January 1863, a rank he eventually attained in March.
    William M. Ferraro, "Schofield, John McAllister," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/05/05-00694.html.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    McDonough, James L. Schofield: Union General in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1972. view record
    Schofield, John McAllister. Forty-Six Years in the Army. New York: Century Co., 1897. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Schofield, John McAllister," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6537.