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John Schofield
was a Union general in the
American Civil War
. He was born in 1831 in
Ohio
. He graduated from the
United States Military Acadamy
in 1853. He fought mostly in the
Western Theater
of the Civil War. After the war, he was Secretary of War from June 1868 to March 1869. He was the commanding general of the U.S. army from 1888 to 1895, when he retired. He died in 1905.