John McAllister Schofield

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1831-09-29

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1906-03-04

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"John McAllister Schofield" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00012695, (accessed November 5, 2024).

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New York, soldier and professor. Chautauqua County, New York, native. Son of James Schofield and Carolina McAllister Schofield. Married to Harriet Bartlett Schofield in June 1857. Father of John Rathbone Schofield, William Bartlett Schofield, and Mary Campbell Schofield. Graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, Orange County, New York, in 1853. Served in the 1st Regiment of Artillery (U.S.A.) as a second lieutenant from 1853 to 1855. Assistant professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1855 to 1860. Professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1860 to April 1861. Served in the 1st Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a major in 1861. Served in the United States Army as a major, brigadier general, major general, and lieutenant general from 1861 to 1895.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, Orange County, Cornwall, p. 173B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, New York, Orange County, Cornwall and West Point, p. 13.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kansas, Leavenworth County, Fort Leavenworth Reservation, p. 197A.
"To the Great Commander," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), March 5, 1906, p. 1.
"Schofield, John McAllister," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. V, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 424.
The Civil War in America: Biographies, Library of Congress, accessed May 19, 2020, https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-war-in-america/biographies/john-m-schofield.html.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Necrology of the Commandery of District of Columbia, 1908: Companion John McAllister Schofield, Lieutenant General, United States Army (Washington, D.C.: Press of Gibson Brothers, 1908).
"John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906)," Find A Grave, Memorial 1917, accessed October 9, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1917.

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