 | Alonzo Leighton Brown - Minnesota - 1892 - 816 pages
...permitted to gather turnips, potatoes or other vegetables and to drive in stock in sight of their camp. To regular foraging parties must be intrusted the...provisions and forage at any distance from the road traveled. fifth — To corps commanders alone is intrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton-gins,... | |
 | William Alexander Campbell - Field service (Military science) - 1896 - 172 pages
...enter the dwellings of the inhabitants or commit any trespass, but during halt or camp they may be permitted to gather turnips, potatoes and other vegetables, and drive in stock in sight of their camp. To regular foraging parties must be intrusted the gathering of provisions and... | |
 | Harvey Marion Trimble - Illinois - 1898 - 466 pages
...enter the dwellings of the inhabitants or commit any trespass; but during a halt or camp they may be permitted to gather turnips, potatoes and other vegetables,...provisions and forage at any distance from the road traveled. V. To corps commanders alone is intrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton gins,... | |
 | Charles Albert Smylie - Tactics - 1898 - 284 pages
...enter the dwellings of the inhabitants or commit any trespass ; but during halt or camp they may be permitted to gather turnips, potatoes, and other vegetables, and drive in stock in sight of their camp. To regular foraging parties must be intrusted the gathering of provisions and... | |
 | Manning Ferguson Force - Biography & Autobiography - 1899 - 406 pages
...permitted to gather turnips, potatoes, and other vegetables, and to drive in stock in sight of their camp. To regular foraging parties must be intrusted the...of provisions and forage at any distance from the roads traveled. 5. To corps commanders alone is intrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton... | |
 | Henry I. Smith - United States - 1903 - 396 pages
...dwellings of the inhabitants, or commit any tressjiass; but during the halt, or at camp, they may be permitted to gather turnips, potatoes, and other vegetables, and drive in stock which is in sight of their camp. To regular foraging parties must be intrusted the gathering of provisions... | |
 | Henry Fales Perry - Indiana - 1906 - 414 pages
...vegetables, and to drive in stock in sight of their camp. To regular foraging-parties must be entrusted the gathering of provisions and forage, at any distance from the road traveled. "5. To corps commanders alone is intrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton-gins,... | |
 | Military Historical Society of Massachusetts - Atlantic States - 1912 - 642 pages
...Soldiers must not enter the dwellings of inhabitants, or commit any trespass." Section five is : " To corps commanders is intrusted the power to destroy...mills, houses, cotton gins, etc., and for them this principle is laid down : In districts and neighborhoods where the army is unmolested, no destruction... | |
 | Oscar Browning - History, Modern - 1912 - 564 pages
...to soldiers were not allowed to enter dwellings or commit any trespass, but during a halt they were permitted to gather turnips, potatoes, and other vegetables, and drive in stock in sight of their camp. The power of destroying houses or mills was permitted to the commanders of corps... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 852 pages
...vegetables, and to drive in stock in sight of their camp. To regular foraging-parties must be entrusted the gathering of provisions and forage, at any distance from the road traveled. 5. To corps commanders alone is entrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton-gins,... | |
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To army corps commanders is intrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton-gins, etc., and for them this general principle is laid down : In districts and neighborhoods where the army is unmolested, no destruction of such property should be permitted... 
