About Schofield's Move From Tennessee to Wilmington, N.C.-- Part 1

That Jacob D. Cox was an interesting person.

He commanded a division of soldiers in Schofield's XXIII Corps that made the move.

This is what Cox said in his book "March to the Sea."  I had seen much about it other than saying it had been done.

"The orders which had been sent General Schofield to move the Twenty-third Corps westward, reached him on January 14th (in Tennessee).  River transports took the troops down the Tennessee and up the Ohio to points where railway transportation could be got, and the transfer to Washington and Alexandria was then completed by rail.

"The distance travelled was fourteen hundred miles, and the corps was ready to take ship before February 1st; but the unusual severity of the winter weather had frozen the Potomac River, and it was not till the 4th that the first detachments of the troops sailed (to Fort Fisher)."

--Old Secesh