 | James Ford Rhodes - History - 1917 - 540 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.... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - History - 1917 - 686 pages
...operations was, as he himself has stated it, "to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy I and his 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.... | |
 | Fannie Eoline Selph - Confederate States of America - 1928 - 418 pages
...your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go," and he added that the 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." What a confession! Lee then could neither... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - History - 1995 - 548 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 the possibility of repose for refit ting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance. Second, to hammer continuously... | |
 | Gary W. Gallagher - History - 1998 - 300 pages
...the description that would haunt him. According to Grant, his goal in the forthcoming campaign was "to hammer continuously against the armed force of...enemy and his resources until, by mere attrition, if no other way, there should be nothing left to him but an equal submission with the loyal section of... | |
 | Orlando B. Willcox - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 764 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...supplies for carrying on resistance; second, to hammer continually against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in... | |
 | Alice Rains Trulock - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 596 pages
...those armies on all fronts. He also intended to use "the greatest number of troops practicable" and "hammer continuously against the armed force of the...no other way, there should be nothing left to him." Deciding to fight Robert E. Lee unrelentingly in an effort to destroy Lee's army while marching on... | |
 | Mark Grimsley - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 330 pages
...troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy," and then by hammering the rebel armies and resources "until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him" but submission. Although Grant made his report in the full glare of hindsight, there is no reason to suppose... | |
 | Gordon C. Rhea - History - 2004 - 540 pages
..."first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy," and second, "to hammer continuously against the armed...other way, there should be nothing left to him" but surrender. "It was a cruel and hardhearted policy," a Confederate later complained, but the logic of... | |
 | G. A. Henty, Gordon Browne - Juvenile Fiction - 2004 - 334 pages
...troops practicable against the main force of the enemy, preventing him from using the same force at different seasons against first one and then another...supplies for carrying on resistance. Second, to hammer contirmouslv against the armed force of the enemy and his resources until, by mere attrition if in... | |
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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... 
