 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
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 1228 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.... | |
 | Walter Herron Taylor - History - 1994 - 358 pages
...in July, 1865: 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;... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - History - 1995 - 548 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,...military power of the rebellion was entirely broken. 1 therefore determined, first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force... | |
 | Orlando B. Willcox - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 764 pages
...headaches, committed suicide at his post at the San Francisco, California, Presidio on March 15,1881. 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 carrying on resistance;... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alice Fahs, Joan Waugh - History - 2004 - 300 pages
...winning strategy of the war and how it was implemented for 1864-65. First: "I . . . determined ... to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy." Second, he decided "to hammer continuously aga1nst the armed force of the enemy. and h1s resources.... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 545 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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