 | Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 pages
...when the fate of the confederacy was to be determined. To use Grant's own words, the policy now was " to hammer continuously against the armed force of...attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left for him but an equal submission with the loyal section of our common country to the Constitution and... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1894 - 1528 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...for refitting and producing necessary supplies for caiTying on resistance; second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1897 - 874 pages
...than balanced by these disadvantages. I therefore determined to use the greatest number of troops, and to hammer continuously against the armed force of...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... | |
 | Capers Dickson - United States - 1896 - 292 pages
...or follow him south if he should retreat," but also "to hammer continuously against the armed forces of the enemy and his resources, until, by mere attrition,...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... | |
 | Henry Alexander White - United States - 1897 - 606 pages
...objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also." The system inaugurated by Grant was " to hammer continuously against the armed force of...enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if by nothing else, there should be nothing left for him but . submission." The purpose of Grant was set... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1897 - 614 pages
...he 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 ;... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1898 - 874 pages
...than balanced by these disadvantages. I therefore determined to use the greatest number of troops, and to hammer continuously against the armed force of...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... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - United States - 1898 - 332 pages
...anticipated the order of things. That programme was thrust on him. His plan, he says in his report, was " to hammer continuously against the armed force of...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... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 594 pages
...aggressive soldier, and an important feature of his plan of operations was, as he himself has stated it, "to hammer continuously against the armed force of...resources until by mere attrition, if in no other way," the South should be subdued.6 Circum1 See Life of Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, p. 334. 2 OR, vol. xxxvi. part... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 764 pages
...Wherever Lee goes, there will you go;" and adding, that the characteristic of his campaign would be "to hammer continuously against the armed force of...enemy and his resources, until, by mere attrition, if nothing else, there shall be nothing left him but submission." His expressed desire was "to fight Lee... | |
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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... 
