 | Henry Clay Kinne - Spanish-American War, 1898 - 1908 - 314 pages
...General : In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley, as it is expected you will have to go first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite...your command. Such as cannot be consumed, destroy. US GRANT, Lieut-General. City Point, Va., Aug. 16, 1864. Major-General Sheridan, Winchester, Va. :... | |
 | George Cary Eggleston - United States - 1910 - 384 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... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1911 - 584 pages
...probably start tomorrow. " ' In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley, as you will have to do first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite...stock wanted for the use of your command. Such as can not be consumed destroy ; it is not desirable that the buildings should be destroyed — they should... | |
 | Mason Whiting Tyler - Massachusetts - 1912 - 440 pages
...diary: " In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley, as it is expected you will have to go first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite...cannot be consumed, destroy. It is not desirable that buildings should be destroyed — they should, rather, be protected ; but the people should be informed... | |
 | Mason Whiting Tyler - Massachusetts - 1912 - 432 pages
...diary: " In pushing up the[Shenandoah Valley, as it is expected you will have to go first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite...cannot be consumed, destroy. It is not desirable that buildings should be destroyed—they should, rather, be protected; but the people should be informed... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - United States - 1913 - 384 pages
...more ruthless aspect than heretofore. 3 "In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley," wrote Grant, August 5, "it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite the enemy to return. Take everything necessary for the troops— horses, mules, cattle, food, and forage, and such as cannot... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1915 - 608 pages
...Virginia: In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley, as it is expected you will have to go first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite...Take all provisions, forage, and stock wanted for your command — such as cannot be consumed destroy. US GRANT, Lieutenant General." "CiTY POINT, August... | |
 | Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...better than Washington. He instructed him, on August 5, that in pushing up the Shenandoah Valley it was desirable that nothing should be left to invite the...your command. Such as cannot be consumed, destroy." Then in September, having put Sheridan in charge of a new division, and having visited him to find... | |
 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - United States - 1923 - 396 pages
...formed : ' In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley, as it is expected you will have to go, first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite...provisions, forage and stock wanted for the use of your comTHE ARMY OF THE SHENANDOAH 265 mand ; such as cannot be consumed, destroy. It is not desirable that... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 1228 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...buildings should be destroyed — they should rather he protected; but the people should be informed that, so long as an army can subsist among them, recurrences... | |
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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,... 
