 | Willis C. Humphrey - United States - 1886 - 720 pages
...both North and South, until the military frmn Gen- power of the rebellion was entirely broken. Report. I .therefore determined, first, to use the greatest...possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance; secondly, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1918 - 992 pages
...words from the Union commander's final report as a perfectly good definition of the Foch strategy: "I, therefore, determined, first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed forces of the enemy, preventing him from using the same force at different seasons against first one... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore, O. H. Tiffany - Presidents - 1885 - 792 pages
...— enabling the enemy to use to great advantage his interior lines of communication." He accordingly determined, "first, to use the greatest number of...possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance ; second, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | Donn Piatt - United States - 1893 - 700 pages
...be had that would be stable and conducive to the happiness of the people, North and South, until the military power of the rebellion was entirely broken....another of our armies, and the possibility of repose at all for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance. Second, to hammer... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 572 pages
...had that was stable, and conducive to the happiness of thi! people, both North and South, until the military power of the rebellion was entirely broken....first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable :i^;iinsi the armed force of the enemy, preventing him from using the same force at different seasons... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1248 pages
...that would be stable aud 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 Allen - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 184 pages
...the field, regardless of season and weather, were necessary to a speedy termination of the war. ... I therefore determined, first, to use the greatest...possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance ; second, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | Walter Herron Taylor - United States - 1906 - 368 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... | |
 | Charles Francis Atkinson - Cold Harbor (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1908 - 554 pages
...interpreted that well-worn phrase so sternly and so literally as Grant. " I determined ", he says, " first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable...possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies. . . . Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his... | |
 | 1908 - 572 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....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... | |
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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... 
