 Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him but an equal submission with the loyal section of our common country to the Constitution...  Annual Reports of the War Department - Page 1098by United States. War Department - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Edward Lee Childe - Generals - 1875 - 366 pages
...enemy and his resources, until, by mere attrition, if by nothing else, there should be nothing left of him but an equal submission with the loyal section of our common country to the constitution and the laws." The horrible sacrifice of men which this plan would entail does not appear to have presented... | |
 | Edward Lee Childe - Generals - 1875 - 394 pages
...enemy and his resources, until, by mere attrition, if by nothing else, there should be nothing left of him but an equal submission with the loyal section of our common country to the constitution and the laws." The horrible sacrifice of men which this plan would entail does not appear to have presented... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 674 pages
...resistance. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should...country to the Constitution and laws of the land." Grant felt encouraged to work -in accordance with these views, for the loyal people everywhere evinced... | |
 | Rev. J. WM. Jones - 1877 - 338 pages
...again st the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until, by mere attrition, if by nothing else, there should be nothing left to him but an equal submission with the-loyal section of our common country to the constitution and laws of the land." Under this fiegging-hammer... | |
 | John William Jones - United States - 1879 - 402 pages
...after the event, " to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him but an equal submission," &c. Not a bad way, perhaps the only way, to conquer freemen, this of "wearing them out by attrition";... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1880 - 1064 pages
...resistance ; second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources until, by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should...campaigns made to carry them out. Whether they might nave been better in conception and execution is for the people, who mourn the loss of friends fallen,... | |
 | John Lindsay Swift - 1880 - 218 pages
...his object was "to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should...country, -to the Constitution and laws of the land." That he regarded it as essential that public opinion should second the hammering process is proved... | |
 | Criticism - 1880 - 884 pages
...armed force of the enemy and his resources until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there shall be nothing left to him but an equal submission with the loyal section of our country, to the Constitution and laws of the land." • * It is said that when the whole question of... | |
 | Charles Folsom Walcott - Massachusetts - 1882 - 570 pages
...resistance. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should...might have been better in conception and execution is for the people, who mourn the loss of friends fallen, and who have to pay the pecuniary cost, to... | |
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