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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 Schofields war record is well known to our readers.
He was the commander of a wing of Shermans 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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