 | Charles Morris, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - United States - 1902 - 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...possibility of repose for refitting and producing the necessary supplies for carrying on resistance. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed... | |
 | Louis Albert Banks - United States - 1902 - 426 pages
...to use the greatest number of troops practicable, second, to hammer continuously against the enemy, until, by mere attrition if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him but submission." INSCRIPTION ON THE TABLET ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF ULYSSES S. GRANT IN THE HALL OF FAME.... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 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. 834. » O. II, vol. xxxvi.... | |
 | Philip Alexander Bruce - United States - 1907 - 394 pages
...destroyed before it would yield. During the campaign's early stages, Grant announced his general plan to be "to hammer continuously against the armed force of...enemy and his resources until by mere attrition, if by nothing else, there would be nothing left for him" but to submit. He knew that the Federals could... | |
 | Charles Francis Atkinson - Biography & Autobiography - 1908 - 528 pages
...leaders'. —(Hird'x Eye View of Our Civil War, p. lilt.) preventing him from using the same force at different seasons against first one and then another...repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies. . . . Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources until,... | |
 | 1908 - 572 pages
...determined first to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy; second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, so that by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be left nothing to him but submission to... | |
 | Charles Henry Fowler - Presidents - 1910 - 376 pages
...determined, first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy; second, to hammer continuously against the armed force...attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left for him but submission to the Constitution and laws of the land." These profound convictions dictated... | |
 | Johnson Hagood - United States - 1910 - 514 pages
...greatly inferior to ours ... I therefore determined ... to hammer continually against him until by attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him but submission." And he succeeded. The "attrition" at Charleston contributed its share to the result. In... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1917 - 532 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.2 Before Spottsylvania an incident of the Wilderness fighting was repeated.... | |
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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... 
