...Grant's idea: "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 submission." CHAPTER XIII. tit* APPROACHING END OF THE WAR — SHERIDAN'S VICTORY AT FIVE FORKS —...

...enemy and his resources, until, by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left Jo him but an equal submission with the loyal section...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...

...shocks one. " 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 of him," etc., is what General US Grant deliberately puts in writing aud submits to the President....

...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...orders given, and campaigns made, to carry them out. With reference to the criticisms made upon his campaigns, as needlessly wasteful of human life, his...

...hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attritien, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to...orders given, and campaigns made, to carry them out. With reference to the criticisms made upon his campaigns, as needlessly wasteful of human life, his...

...resistance; second, to hammer continuously iiguinst 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 nn equal submission, with the loyal section of our common country, to the constitution and laws of...

...his own words: " 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." In other words, his plan was to press the fighting without regard to defeats or losses in the full...

...of troops, and 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 equal submission with the loyal sections of our common country to the Constitution and laws of the...

...retreat," but also "to hammer continuously against the armed forces of the enemy and his resources, until, by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him but submission." Although General Grant did not sueceed in his first object of "beating Lee north of Richmond,"being...

...never spared himself. His plan was 'to hammer continuously against the armed forces of the enemy, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him but submission.' At Belmont Grant taught his defeated soldiers to cut a way through through the enemy ;...