 | Charles Francis Atkinson - Biography & Autobiography - 1908 - 528 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 against the armed force of the enemy, Confederate, seems to me to afford a most convincing proof of the general strategical and tactical... | |
 | Charles Henry Fowler - Presidents - 1910 - 374 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, until by mere... | |
 | Grenville M. Dodge - United States - 1914 - 266 pages
...armies — first, to concentrate the greatest number of troops possible against each of the armed forces of the enemy, preventing him from using the same force at different times against any one of our armies, and to continually fight the enemy and destroy his resources,... | |
 | Frederic Louis Huidekoper - United States - 1915 - 806 pages
...But Lee had fathomed his pur* " I therefore determined, first, to use the greatest number of troopa practicable against the armed force of the enemy;...possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force... | |
 | Franklin Spencer Edmonds - Biography & Autobiography - 1915 - 396 pages
...was to break the military power of the rebellion and the methods which he determined to employ were, first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy, and, second, to hammer continuously until, by mere attrition, if in no other way, rebellion should... | |
 | Arthur Latham Conger, Robert Matteson Johnston - Military art and science - 1916 - 518 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....same force at different seasons against first one then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies... | |
 | Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...resources were not more than balanced by these disadvantages and the enemy's superior position." He 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... | |
 | American fiction - 1919 - 868 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - North American review - 1919 - 898 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... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 566 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... | |
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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... 
