 | Henry Eugene Davies - Generals - 1895 - 380 pages
...... In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley, as it is expected you will have to go there first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite the enemy to return. Take all provisigns, forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command. Such as can not be consumed destroy.... | |
 | Sanford Cobb Kellogg - History - 1903 - 258 pages
...* * * 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...consumed, destroy. It is not desirable that the buildings be destroyed; they should rather be protected, but the people should be informed that so long as an... | |
 | William Josiah McMurray - Tennessee - 1904 - 588 pages
...— " 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...your command, such as cannot be consumed, destroy." And says Mr. Horact Greely : — was now given to the torch." — "American Conflict," Vol. II, pp.... | |
 | United States. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission - Spain - 1901 - 796 pages
...******* 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...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... | |
 | Edward Waldo Emerson - United States - 1907 - 558 pages
...the harsh measure of wasting the Valley, Sheridan had no choice. Grant's commands were, in order " that nothing should be left to invite the enemy to...cannot be consumed, destroy. It is not desirable that buildings should be destroyed — they should, rather, be protected; but the people should be informed... | |
 | Hunter McGuire, George Llewellyn Christian - Confederate States of America - 1907 - 260 pages
...: , " 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...forage and stock wanted for the use of your command; sucJi as cannot be consumed destroy." * * And says Mr. Horace Greely: " This order, Sheridan, in returning... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - Literary Criticism - 1907 - 400 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 1 Cullum,... | |
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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,... 
