 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...  Annual Reports of the War Department - Page 1097by United States. War Department - 1866Full view - About this book
 | 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;...against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance.... | |
 | 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
...superior position. " 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,...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...against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance;... | |
 | 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...against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance.... | |
 | 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...against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance.... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 566 pages
...superior position. 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,...against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance.... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1876 - 802 pages
...him, and says: " 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,...South, until the military power of the rebellion was broken. I therefore determined, first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1210 pages
...superior position. 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,...against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance... | |
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