August 14, 1888
WAR DEPARTMENT
By direction of the President, Major-General John M. Schofield is assigned to the command of the Army of the United States.
WM. C. ENDICOTT,
Secretary of War.
Grover Cleveland, Executive Order Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/205518