 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1876 - 802 pages
...to the happiness of the people, both North and South, until the military power of the rebellion was broken. I therefore determined, first, to use the...possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1210 pages
...that would be stable and conducive to the happiness of the people, both North and South, until the military power of the rebellion was entirely broken....possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance ; second, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 1228 pages
...that would be stable and conducive to the happiness of the people, both North and South, until the military power of the rebellion was entirely broken....possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | Walter Herron Taylor - History - 1994 - 358 pages
...that would be stable and conducive to the happiness of the people, b.oth North and South, until the military power of the rebellion was entirely broken....possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance; second, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - History - 1995 - 548 pages
...the people, both North and South, until the military power of the rebellion was entirely broken. 1 therefore determined, first, to use the greatest number...another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refit ting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance. Second, to hammer continuously... | |
 | Orlando B. Willcox - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 764 pages
...his post at the San Francisco, California, Presidio on March 15,1881. both North and South, until the military power of the rebellion was entirely broken....possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance; second, to hammer continually against the armed force... | |
 | Mark Grimsley - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 330 pages
...in the war he became convinced that there was only one way to break the Confederacy: f1rst, by using "the greatest number of 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,... | |
 | Charles R. Bowery - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 296 pages
...nested, top to bottom. • Be as simple as possible! speedy termination of the war." He proposed, then, "to use the greatest number of troops practicable...against first one and then another of our armies" and "to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition,... | |
 | Gordon C. Rhea - History - 2004 - 540 pages
...Chattanooga. Convinced that the rebellion would collapse only when its military power was broken, Grant aimed "first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy," and second, "to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until by... | |
 | Brian M. Thomsen - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 390 pages
...certainly entitled to the credit of having practised them, if not to the merit of originally. They were: "First, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy;" and, Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy, and his resources, until,... | |
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I therefore determined, first, to use the greatest number of 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... 
