 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 586 pages
...further for an active campaign against the enemy, and the devastation of the Shenandoah Valley, so that "nothing should be left to invite the enemy to...but the people should be informed that so long as an Oranti army can subsist among them recurrences of these Mémoire?" raids must be expected, and we are... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 580 pages
...further for an active campaign against the enemy, and the devastation of the Shenandoah Valley, so that "nothing should be left to invite the enemy to...destroy. It is not desirable that the buildings should be destroyed—they should rather be protected; but the people should be informed that so long as an army... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 584 pages
...further for an active campaign against the enemy, and the devastation of the Shenandoah Valley, so that "nothing should be left to invite the enemy to...stock wanted for the use of your command; such as canuot be consumed, destroy. It is not desirable that the buildings should be destroyed — they should... | |
 | United States. War Dept - Confederate States of America - 1891 - 1056 pages
...to-morrow. In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley, where it is expected you will have to go first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite...destroy. It is not desirable that the buildings should lie destroyed : they should rather be protected, but the people should lx> informed that so long as... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore, Otis Henry Tiffany - Presidents - 1885 - 790 pages
...General Early. " In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley," said General Grant in his orders to Sheridan, " it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite...the enemy to return. Take all provisions, forage, stock wanted for the use of your command ; such as cannot be consumed, destroy. The people should be... | |
 | Armies - 1893 - 252 pages
...said: " In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley, where it is expected you will have to go first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite...destroy. It is not desirable that the buildings should be destroyed—they should rather be protected; but the people should be informed that so long as an army... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - United States - 1895 - 604 pages
...that the fertile valley was to have a sadder experience than it had yet known. Grant's orders were that " nothing should be left to invite the enemy...your command. Such as cannot be consumed, destroy." The order was thoroughly carried out. Sheridan .says in his report, " I have destroyed over two thousand... | |
 | Edwin Mortimer Haynes - Monocacy, Battle of, Md., 1864 - 1894 - 776 pages
...enemy to return. Take all provisions, forage and stock, wanted for your command, and such as cannot he consumed destroy. It is not desirable that the buildings...should rather be protected, but the people should he informed that as long as an army can subsist among them, recurrences of these raids must be expected,... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (August-November) - 1894 - 340 pages
...Grant to General Hunter on the 4th of August, 1864, by which he was directed to "take all provisionsr forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command....cannot be consumed, destroy. It is not desirable that dwellings should be destroyed, they should rather be protected, but the people should be informed that... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1894 - 1596 pages
...to-inorrow. In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley, where it is expected you will have to go first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite the enemy to return. Take nil provisions, forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command ; such as cannot be consumed,... | |
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Take all provisions, forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command ; such as cannot be consumed, destroy. It is not desirable that the buildings should be destroyed — they should, rather be protected ; but the people should be informed that,... 
