...stable peace could be obtained, none which could really conduce to the happiness of the whole people, North and South, until the military power of the rebellion was entirely broken. He had also long believed that active and continuous operations of all the troops that could be brought...

...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...against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance;...

...his conduct. " From the first I was firm in the conviction that no peace could be had that would be stable and conducive to the happiness of the people,...military power of the Rebellion was entirely broken." This it was, after he had started on his march to Richmond and fought the great battle of the Wilderness,...

...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...

...the first I was firm in the conviction that no peace could be had that would be stable and~conclucive to the happiness of the people, both North and South,...against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance...

...— enabling the enemy to use to great advantage his interior lines of communication." He accordingly determined, "first, to use the greatest number of...against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance...

...conviction that no peace could be had that would be stable and conducive to the happiness of the people, North and South, until the military power of the rebellion...against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose at all for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance....

...termination of the war. From the first, I was firm in the conviction that no peace could be had that was stable, and conducive to the happiness of the people,...against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance;...

...conviction that no peace could be had that would be Stable and conducive to the happiness of the ])eople, both North and South, until the military power of...against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for caiTying on resistance;...

...in the conviction that no peace could be had that was stable, and conducive to the happiness of thi! people, both North and South, until the military power...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...