 | Arthur Latham Conger, Robert Matteson Johnston - Military art and science - 1916 - 518 pages
...transporting troops from east to west, reinforcing the army most vigorously pressed, and to furlough large numbers, during seasons of inactivity on our...and the enemy's superior position. " From the first, I was firm in the conviction that no peace could be had that would be stable and conducive to the happiness... | |
 | Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...numbers, during seasons of inactivity on our part, to go to their homes and do the work of providing for the support of their armies. It was a question...disadvantages and the enemy's superior position." He determined, "first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of... | |
 | Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...transporting troops from East to West, reinforcing the army most vigorously pressed, and to furlough large numbers, during seasons of inactivity on our part, to go to their homes and do the work of providing for the support of their armies. It was a question whether our numerical strength and resources... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 564 pages
...transporting troops from East to West, re-enforcing the army most vigorously pressed, and to furlough large numbers, during seasons of inactivity on our...and the enemy's superior position. From the first I was firm in the conviction that no peace could be had that would be stable and conducive to the happiness... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1210 pages
...transporting troops from east to west, re-enforcing the army most vigorously pressed, and to furlough large numbers, during seasons of inactivity on our...and the enemy's superior position. From the first, I was firm in the conviction that no peace could be had that would be stable and conducive to the happiness... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 1228 pages
...transporting troops from East to West, reinforcing the army most vigorously pressed, and to furlough large numbers, during seasons of inactivity on our...and the enemy's superior position. From the first, I was firm in the conviction that no peace could be had that would be stable and conducive to the happiness... | |
 | Isaac Newton Arnold - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 492 pages
...transporting troops from East to West, re-enforcing the army most vigorously pressed, and to furlough large numbers, during seasons of inactivity on our...support of their armies. It was a question whether our 1. McPber*on's History of the Rebellion, p. «5. numerical strength and resources were not more than... | |
 | Gordon C. Rhea - History - 2004 - 540 pages
...Fulton II (Gaithersburg, Md., 1986), 98. forcing the army most vigorously pressed, and to furlough large numbers, during seasons of inactivity on our...work of producing for the support of their armies." On occasion, even Union generals within each theater had pursued unrelated goals. "I determined to... | |
 | Alice Fahs, Joan Waugh - History - 2004 - 300 pages
...people. he wrote. were sick and tired of the war. "It was a question." Grant reminded his readers. "whether our numerical strength and resources were not more than balanced by these d1sadvantages and the enemy's superior position."28 Presaging his later criticisms of the "marble man."... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 545 pages
...transporting troops from East to West, reinforcing the army most vigorously pressed, and to furlough large numbers, during seasons of inactivity on our...and the enemy's superior position. From the first, I was firm in the conviction that no peace could be had that would be stable and conducive to the happiness... | |
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... the army most vigorously pressed, and to furlough large numbers, during seasons of inactivity on our part, to go to their homes and do the work of producing for the support of their armies. It was a question whether our numerical strength and resources... 
