 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1892 - 1048 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...provisions and forage at any distance from the road traveled. V. To army corps commanders alone is intrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton-gins,... | |
 | David Power Conyngham - History - 1865 - 444 pages
...will organize a good and efficient foraging party, under command of one or more discreet officers. To regular foraging parties must be intrusted the...of provisions and forage at any distance from the roads travelled. " As for horses, mules, wagons, &c., the cavalry and artillery may appropriate freely... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 668 pages
...enter the dwellings of the inhabitants or commit any trespass ; during the halt or a camp they may be permitted to gather turnips, potatoes, and other vegetables, and drive in stock in front of their camps." The power was entrusted to army corps commanders, to destroy mills, houses, cotton-gins, etc., in districts... | |
 | 1910 - 878 pages
...vegetables, and to drive stock in sight of their camps. To regular foraging parties must be entrusted the gathering of provisions and forage, at any distance from the road travelled. (5) To corps-commanders alone, is entrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton gins, etc.;... | |
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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... 
