 You I propose to move against Johnston's army, to break it up, and to get into the interior of the enemy's country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can against their war resources.  General Johnston - Page 223by Robert Morton Hughes - 1893 - 353 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas H. Martin - Atlanta (Ga.) - 1902 - 750 pages
...of risk. As for Sherman, his orders from General Grant were very explicit and radical. He was told to move against Johnston's army, to break it up, and...into the interior of the enemy's country as far as he could, inflicting all the damage possible on their war resources. In reply, General Sherman agreed... | |
 | Sanford Cobb Kellogg - History - 1903 - 258 pages
...Gen. Joe Johnston's army at Dalton simultaneously with Grant's and Butler's movements upon Richmond, and "to get into the interior of the enemy's country as far as you can." Still another factor in Grant's general scheme was a movement on Mobile by Banks's army from the direction... | |
 | Edward Robins - Generals - 1905 - 364 pages
...almost an independent objective." And Grant had written to Sherman, apropos of this grand campaign: " You I propose to move against Johnston's army, to...all the damage you can against their war resources." To Sherman himself the lieutenant-general left the actual plan of the Atlanta campaign, and on Sherman,... | |
 | United States. Military Information Division. War Department - 1909 - 758 pages
...to start from Charleston on the Kanawha, to move against the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. . . . You I propose to move against Johnston's army, to break it up and to get into the interior of *Grant. the enemy's country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can against their war... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - United States - 1911 - 362 pages
...spring campaign, to work all the parts of the army together, and somewhat toward a common center. . . . You, I propose to move against Johnston's army, to...all the damage you can against their war resources." To Meade he wrote: " Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go... | |
 | Arthur Latham Conger, Robert Matteson Johnston - Military art and science - 1916 - 518 pages
...operations against Mobile as soon as he can. It will be impossible for him to commence too early. . . . You, I propose to move against Johnston's army, to...all the damage you can against their war resources. I do not propose to lay down for you a plan of campaign, but simply to lay down the work it is desirable... | |
 | Willis John Abbot - United States - 1916 - 384 pages
...strategy of 547 the war Grant reserved Lee's army for his own special attention. To Sherman he wrote, " You I propose to move against Johnston's army, to...all the damage you can against their war resources." How thoroughly Sherman carried out this plan we shall see. Subordinate expeditions were assigned to... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 590 pages
...campaign and stated that he purposed to send the latter against Johnston's army " to break it up and get into the interior of the enemy's country as far...the damage you can against their war resources."* Sherman accepted this task with " infinite satisfaction " and planned that Schofield should advance... | |
 | Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...— Mobile, Savannah, Charleston, and Wilmington, protected by Fort Fisher. To Sherman he gave orders "to move against Johnston's army, to break it up and...all the damage you can against their war resources." Banks was to seize Mobile; but Banks was busy on expeditions in Arkansas and Louisiana inspired from... | |
 | 1887 - 980 pages
...McCook added 10,000 or 12,000 men to the number. The object prescribed to him by General Grant was " to move against Johnston's army, to break it up, and to get into the interior of the enemies' country as far as he could, inflicting all the damage possible on their war resources." 586... | |
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