 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - United States - 1866 - 886 pages
...defeated. ** * *** * * Orders have been issued for all officers and detachments, having three mouths or more to serve, to rejoin your army, via Savannah..... Major General WT SHERMAN, Savannah. HEADQUARTERS ARMIRS OF THE UNITED STATES, Washington, DC, December 18, 1864. MY DEAR GENERAL: I have just received... | |
 | Columbia (S.C.) - 1873 - 144 pages
...for my own immediate use. (Witness read from letter of General Halleck the following extract : ) " Orders have- been issued for all officers and detachments...may be destroyed ; and if a little salt should be thrown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession." General... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1874 - 782 pages
...Depositions for Defence, pp. 84 and 85. Extract from a letter of General Halleck to General Sherman : " Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some...may be destroyed ; and if a little salt should be thrown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession." And... | |
 | Thomas Budd Van Horne - United States - 1875 - 500 pages
...anticipate. General Grant is expected here this morning, and will probably write you his own views. #******** Orders have been issued for all officers and detachments,...nullification and secession. Yours truly, HW HALLECK, Major-General, Chief of Staff. Major-General WT Sherman, Savannah. HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1875 - 416 pages
...Missouri, allowing Price with a small force to overrun the State and destroy millions of property. Orders have been issued for all officers and detachments...nullification and secession. Yours truly, HW HALLECK, Major-General, Chief-of-Staff. [CONFIDENTIAL.] HEADQUARTERS ARHIES OF THI UNITED STATES, ) WASHINOTON,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Van Horne - United States - 1875 - 498 pages
...anticipate. General Grant is expected here this morning, and will probably write you his own views. ********* Orders have been issued for all officers and detachments,...nullification and secession. Yours truly, HW HALLECK, Major-General, Chief of Staff. Major-General WT Sherman, Savannah. HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1875 - 428 pages
...Missouri, allowing Price with a small force to overrun the State and destroy millions of property. Orders have been issued for all officers and detachments...crops of nullification and secession. Yours truly, II. W. HALLECE, Major- General, Chief -of -Staff. [CONFIDENTIAI.] HEADQUAETEES AEMIES or THE UNITED... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1875 - 422 pages
...months to serve, will be retained by General Thomas. Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by lome accident the place may be destroyed, and, if a little...secession. Yours truly, HW HALLECK, Major- General, Chief-of-Staff. [ComDEsTUL.] HEADQUARTERS ARMIES or THE UNITED STATES, ) WASHmaros, DC, December 18,... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - United States - 1876 - 842 pages
...months to serve, will be retained by General Thomas. Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by gome accident the place may be destroyed, and, if a little...crops of nullification and secession. Yours truly, HV M • i : :••,-;. Major- General, Chief -of -Staff. HEADQUARTERS ARMIES or THE UNITED STATES,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1902 - 622 pages
...premeditation on the part of the general. "Should you capture Charleston," wrote Halleck, December 18, 1864, " I hope that by some accident the place may be destroyed, and if a little salt should be sown upon the site it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession." Sherman thus replied... | |
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Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some accident the place may be destroyed; and if a little salt should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession... 
