...vision. Sherman, Grant wrote, was to "move against Johnston's army [the Confederate army in Georgia], to break it up and to get into the interior of the...all the damage you can against their war resources. I do not propose to lay down for you a plan of campaign, but simply lay down the work it is desirable...

...Sherman, Commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi, to "move against Johnston's Confederate army, to break it up and to get into the interior...can, inflicting all the damage you can against their resources." General Joseph E. Johnston's army was concentrated at Dalton, Georgia. OR 32, pt. 3, p....

...of supply in order to weaken the entire southern war effort. Sherman, in particular, was instructed to "get into the interior of the enemy's country as...all the damage you can against their war resources." His drive was to merge at Atlanta with a Union movement from Mobile. This was Winfield Scott's Anaconda...

...of Grant's overall plan, Sherman had been ordered to move against Johnston's army, "to break it up, get into the interior of the enemy's country as far...all the damage you can against their war resources." Sherman's first goal in his disruption of the Confederacy was to take the vital supply, manufacturing...

...was fully prepared to do as Grant had ordered him: "Move against Johnston's army, break it up, and get into the interior of the enemy's country as far...all the damage you can against their war resources." Confederate commander Joe Johnston, however, a trim fifty-seven-year-old West Pointer, wasn't prepared...

...Tennessee, Braxton Bragg 's old command, which manned defensive positions near Dalton, Georgia. Grant wrote, "You I propose to move against Johnston's army, to break it up and get into the interior of the enemy's country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can against...

...not at that moment realize that Sherman was thinking even more boldly than he, in terms of getting "into the interior of the enemy's country as far as you can." By the end of April, Sherman had assembled ninety-eight thousand men in Chattanooga, ready to march...

...out of Washington"), he fully endorsed the man's operational suggestions. He gave Sherman free rein: "You I propose to move against Johnston's army, to...all the damage you can against their war resources." With these words, Grant approved the large-scale raiding strategy Sherman had been fine-tuning for...

...Ord. His force will be all cavalry, while Ord will have from ten to twelve thousand men of all arms, 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 lay down the work it is desirable...

...range of the Alleghanies would be turned. On April 4 he sent the following instructions to Sherman : 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...