. Reminiscences of a soldier's wife : an autobiography. capable of inciting or allowing a mutinous spirit to pre-vail, but he was not able to prevent the army from feehngresentment at the appointment of General O. O. not General Logan gone North at the soHcitation ofPresident Lincoln to take part in the Presidential campaignof 1864—after the fall of Atlanta—and had not the armystarted on its hoHday march to the sea, the incident mightnot have ended as it did. Suffice it to say, that the authori-ties at Washington deemed it expedient to transfer Major-General O. O. Howard to the comm
. Reminiscences of a soldier's wife : an autobiography. capable of inciting or allowing a mutinous spirit to pre-vail, but he was not able to prevent the army from feehngresentment at the appointment of General O. O. not General Logan gone North at the soHcitation ofPresident Lincoln to take part in the Presidential campaignof 1864—after the fall of Atlanta—and had not the armystarted on its hoHday march to the sea, the incident mightnot have ended as it did. Suffice it to say, that the authori-ties at Washington deemed it expedient to transfer Major-General O. O. Howard to the command of the FreedmansBureau, in Washington, and restore General Logan to thecommand of the Army of the Tennessee. Major-GeneralLogan, therefore, rode at the head of that invincible army atthe grand review. The Army of the Tennessee manifestedtheir gratification at his return to the command in everypossible way. General 0. O. Howard was naturally chagrined, A- ^^^>V iy^^Cc^^^^-^ ^?*^- AKMY OF THE CUMBERLAITD. ^ nn^^-.^,^^^ It^ .^^ <^ /A^^.^C. Letter of General Joseph Hooker to General Logan informing him ofGeneral Hookers resignation because of the appointment of GeneralHoward to the command of the Army of the Tennessee. A SOLDIERS WIFE 163 and a few years ago, in a public way, tried to explain that therestoration of Major-General Logan to the command of theArmy of the Tennessee was brought about by political influ-ence. It was at least strange that this explanation was notgiven while General Logan and General Sherman were since the war closed, and the patriotic societies wereorganized, on every occasion of their meetings, or rather re-unions. General Logan was hailed with enthusiasm as thegreat commander of the Army of the Tennessee. It may not be inappropriate for me on this occasion to saythat whatever of misunderstanding and estrangement theremay have existed at one time between the two great com-manders of the Army of the Tennessee, Sherman and Logan,it
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