 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 pages
...triumphs. But where Hooker had only fought and struggled away, Grant fights and struggles through. of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should no nothing left to him" but submission " to the Constitution and laws of the land." The slaughter is... | |
 | William Swinton - History - 1866 - 702 pages
...measure that was certainly an effectual agency in the lieutenant-general's avowed plan of " hammering continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources until by mere attrition,* if by no other way, there should be nothing left to him." While the conscription system had thus hopelessly... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1866 - 436 pages
...troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy ; preventing him from using the same force at different seasons against first one and then another of our armies, and Dossibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carry n resistance. Second,... | |
 | Jubal Anderson Early - United States - 1867 - 144 pages
...First, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy;" mid, Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force...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... | |
 | Jubal Anderson Early - Generals - 1867 - 120 pages
...to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the* armed force of the enemy ;" and, •« Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force...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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - United States - 1867 - 464 pages
...to bear .constantly upon the enemy, to give him no rest nor opportunity to use the same forces, at different seasons, against first one and then another of our armies, and thus to counteract in part the advantages which the enemy had hitherto derived from his central position.... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1134 pages
..."I, therefore, determined first to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the enemy; second to hammer continuously against the armed force...other way, there should be nothing left to him."* That strategy of the campaigns that followed is not far to seek. There it is, in its author's own words:... | |
 | Henry Champion Deming - Electronic books - 1868 - 562 pages
...troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy, preventing him from using the same force at different seasons against first one and then another...producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance." For the first time too, in the history of the war, he inaugurated expeditions which were correspondents... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1172 pages
...greatest number of troops practicable against the enemy; second to hammer continuously against the arbed force of the enemy and his resources, until, by mere...other way, there should be nothing left to him."* That strategy of the campaigns that followed is not far to seek. There it is, in its author's own words:... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1868 - 796 pages
...from using the same force at different seasons, a jain?: first one and then another of our armies,an<i the possibility of repose for refitting and producing...resistance. Second, to hammer continuously against uV armed force of the enemy, and his resources, until by mere attrition, if m no other way. tlie-e... | |
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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... 
