 | Howard M. Hensel - United States - 1989 - 344 pages
...emphasized, " 'neither confiscation of property, political executions of persons, territorial organizations of states, or forcible abolition of slavery, should be contemplated for a moment.' " Indeed, rather than be viewed as a war against the Southern people, the young General maintained... | |
 | Mark E. Neely Jr. - History - 1992 - 297 pages
...at all upon population, but against armed forces and political organizations. Neither confiscation of property, political executions of persons, territorial...abolition of slavery should be contemplated for a moment Military arrests should not be tolerated, except in places where actual hostilities exist; [military... | |
 | Ira Berlin - History - 1992 - 270 pages
...reiterated his belief that "[n]either confiscation of property, political executions of persons, tertitorial organization of States, or forcible abolition of slavery, should be contemplated for a moment."50 But slaves in tidewater Virginia attached little importance to McClellan's opinions, preferring... | |
 | Wang, Xi - Social Science - 1997 - 466 pages
...ground" of the nation's trouble. Although he warned that "confiscation of property, political execution of persons, territorial organization of States, or forcible abolition of slavery" should not be considered for the moment, he suggested that "slaves, contraband under the act of Congress,... | |
 | Michael McHugh - Generals - 1998 - 228 pages
...all, a War upon population; but against armed forces and political organizations. Neither confiscation of property, political executions of persons, territorial...should be strictly protected; subject only to the necessities of military operations. All private property taken for military use should be paid or receipted... | |
 | Bruce Catton - Education - 1998 - 452 pages
...long memorandum McCIellan spelled out his ideas of what war policy ought to be: "Neither confiscation of property, political executions of persons, territorial...abolition of slavery should be contemplated for a moment." Military power should never be used to interfere with "the relations of servitude"; where contrabands... | |
 | Hugh Tulloch - History - 1999 - 276 pages
...organisations. Neither confiscation of property, political execution of persons, territorial organisation of states, or forcible abolition of slavery, should be contemplated for a moment.'9 Yet it was precisely in all these directions that the war was drifting. McClellan was, at... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - History - 2000 - 662 pages
...all, a War upon population; but against armed forces and political organizations. Neither confiscation of property, political executions of persons, territorial...abolition of slavery should be contemplated for a moment.70 ". . . all private property and unarmed persons," McClellan said, "should be strictly protected.... | |
 | Stephen W. Sears - History - 1999 - 324 pages
...Congress for dealing with Southerners' property. "Neither confiscation of property, political execution of persons, territorial organization of states or...abolition of slavery should be contemplated for a moment," General McClellan told Lincoln in his famous Harrison's Landing letter. His concern here about "forcible... | |
 | William J. Jackson - History - 2000 - 300 pages
...against armed forces and political organizations. Neither confiscation of property, political execution of persons, territorial organization of states, or...abolition of slavery should be contemplated for a moment."59 Lincoln rejected McClellan's advice, and following Antietam, he removed the still remarkably... | |
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It should not be a war looking to the subjugation of the people of any State, in any event. It should not be at all a war upon population, but against armed forces and political organizations. Neither confiscation of property, political executions of... 
