★ ★  MOH Schofield, John M.

John McAllister Schofield

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Born: September 29, 1831
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Birthplace: Gerry, New York

Father: Rev. James Schofield 1801 – 1888
(Buried: Freeport City Cemetery, Freeport, Illinois)​

Mother: Caroline McAllister 1810 – 1857
(Buried: Freeport City Cemetery, Freeport, Illinois)​

1st Wife: Harriet Whitehorn Bartlett 1833 – 1888
(Buried: U.S. Military Academy Post Cemetery, West Point, New York)​

2nd Wife: Georgia Wells Kilbourne 1864 - 1927
(Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York)​

Children:

John Rathbone Schofield 1858 – 1868​
(Buried: U.S. Military Academy Post Cemetery, West Point, New York)​
Major William Bartlett Schofield 1860 – 1906​
(Buried: San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, California)​
Henry Halleck Schofield 1862 – 1863​
(Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri)​
Mary Campbell Schofield Andrews 1865 – 1945​
(Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia)​
Colonel Richmond McAllister Schofield 1867 – 1941​
(Buried: River View Cemetery, Portland, Oregon)​
Georgia Schofield Outhwaite 1897 – 1950​
(Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Saint Augustine, Florida)​

Education:

1853: Graduated from West Point Military Academy – (7th in class)​

Occupation before War:

1853: Brevet, 2nd Lt. of United States Army, Artillery​
1853: Garrison Duty at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina​
1853 – 1855: 2nd Lt. United States Army, 1st Artillery​
1854 – 1855: Served in the Seminole War in Florida​
1855 – 1861: 1st Lt. United States Army, 1st Artillery​
1855 – 1856: Assistant Philosophy Professor at West Point​
1856 – 1860: Principal Assistant Professor at West Point​
1860 – 1861: Leave of Absence from United States Army​
1860 – 1861: Physics Professor at Washington University​

Civil War Career:

1861: Mustering Officer for the State of Missouri​
1861: Major of 1st Missouri Volunteers​
1861: Major of 1st Missouri Artillery​
1861: Declined rank of Captain of U.S. Army, 11th Infantry Regiment​
1861 – 1864: Captain of United States Army, 1st Artillery​
1861: Chief of Staff to Brig. General Nathaniel Lyon​
1861: Served in the Battle of Dug Springs, Missouri
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1861: Served in the Skirmish at Curran Post Office, Missouri​
1861: Served in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Missouri
1861: Served in the fighting at Fredericktown, Missouri​
1861 – 1862: Brigadier General of Union Army, Volunteers​
1861 – 1862: Brigadier General of Missouri State Militia​
1861 – 1862: Commander of Missouri State Militia​
1861: Member of Board to examine fitness of Mississippi Gun Flotilla​
1862: Union Army Commander of District of St. Louis, Missouri​
1862 – 1863: Union Army Commander, Army of the Frontier​
1862 – 1863: Union Army Commander, District of Southwest Missouri​
1862 – 1866: Major General of Union Army, Volunteers​
1863: Union Army Commander of 3rd Division, 14th Army Corps​
1863 – 1864: Union Army Commander, Department of the Missouri​
1864 – 1865: Union Army Commander, Army of the Ohio​
1864: Served in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia​
1864: Served in the Battle of Dallas, Georgia​
1864: Union Army Commander at Battle of Kolb’s Farm, Georgia​
1864: Served in the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia​
1864: In pursuit of Hood’s Army from Florence, Alabama to Tennessee​
1864: Union Army Commander at Battle of Franklin, Tennessee​
1864 – 1869: Brigadier General in United States Army​
1864: Corps Commander at the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee​
1864: In Pursuit of Hood and the Confederate Army of Tennessee​
1865: Union Army Commander, Department of North Carolina​
1865: Captured Fort Anderson and Wilmington, North Carolina​
1865: Brevetted Major General for Gallantry, at Battle of Franklin​
1865: Present at the surrender of General Joseph Johnston’s Army​
1865: Union Army Commander, Department of North Carolina​
1865 – 1866: Special Duty in Europe for U.S. Army​
1866 – 1867: Union Army Commander, Department of Potomac​
1866: Mustered out of the Union Army on September 1st
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Occupation after War:

1864 – 1869: Brigadier General in United States Army​
1866 – 1867: U.S. Army Commander, Department of Potomac​
1867 – 1868: U.S. Army Commander, First Military District​
1868 – 1869: United States Secretary of U.S. War Department​
1869 – 1895: Major General in United States Army​
1869 – 1870: U.S. Army Commander, Department of Missouri​
1869 – 1870: President of U.S. Army Board of Tactics and Small Arms​
1870 – 1876: U.S. Army Commander, Division of the Pacific​
1872 – 1873: Special Mission to the Hawaiian Islands​
1876: Member of U.S. Army Board Revising Army Regulations​
1876 – 1881: Superintendent of West Point Military Academy​
1878 – 1879: President of Board of inquiry for Fitz John Porter​
1881: U.S. Army Commander, Division of the Gulf​
1882 – 1883: U.S. Army Commander, Department of California​
1882 – 1886: President of U.S. Army Military Prison Board​
1883 – 1886: U.S. Army Commander, Division of the Missouri​
1886 – 1888: U.S. Army Commander, Department of the East​
1888 – 1895: Commanding General of United States Army​
1892: Recipient of the Medal of Honor for service at Wilson’s Creek​
1895: Lt. General by Special act of U.S. Congress in February​
1895: Retired from United States Army on September 29th
1901: Spoke before congress in support of Army Reorganization Act​
1903: Spoke before Congress in support of Dick Act of 1903​
Last Surviving member of Andrew Johnson’s Presidential Cabinet​

Died: March 4, 1906

Place of Death: Saint Augustine, Florida

Cause of Death: Effects from a Stroke

Age at time of Death: 74 years old

Burial Place: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

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Medal of Honor Citation
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Major John McAllister Schofield, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on August 10th, 1861, while serving with 1st Missouri Infantry, in action at Wilson's Creek, Missouri. Major Schofield was conspicuously gallant in leading a regiment in a successful charge against the enemy.
 
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While his major generalship was tied up in committee over petty grievances He reverted back tp brigadier and briefly commanded a division in Tennesse. He was then reappointed major general and transferred to the Department of the Ohio. He then joined Shetman in the Atlanta Campaign.
 
He awarded himself the Medal of Honor as Secretary of War in 1868-69 based un his undocumented valor at Wilson's Creek. He did not get the medal until 1892.
 
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