 | Lloyd Lewis - History - 1993 - 744 pages
...general's letter-writing art at its best. Phrases and sentences rose powerfully from its text— . . . sooner or later want will compel the inhabitants to go. Why not go now . . . instead of waiting till the plunging shot of contending armies will renew the scenes of the past... | |
 | Isaac Newton Arnold - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 492 pages
...the mayor of Atlanta protested against this order for removal. In reply, General Sherman said: " The use of Atlanta for warlike purposes is inconsistent...go. Why not go now, when all the arrangements are compieteci for the transfer, instead of waiting till the plunging shot of contending armies will renew... | |
 | Elizabeth D. Samet - History - 2004 - 300 pages
...September 1864 articulates a dynamic of cause and effect strikingly similar to that of Shakespeare's scene: Why not go now, when all the arrangements are completed for the transfer, instead of waiting till the plunging shot of contending armies will renew the scenes of the past month? . . . You cannot qualify... | |
 | Allison Dorsey - Social Science - 2004 - 260 pages
...noted "Atlanta is no place for families or noncombatants." He spoke more plainly to Mayor Calhoun: "The use of Atlanta for warlike purposes is inconsistent with its character as a home for families"; "inhabitants," he insisted, should leave before "want. . . compel[s] [them] to go." Finally, in a letter... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 668 pages
...military operations from this quarter, and therefore deem it wise and prudent to prepare in time. The use of Atlanta for warlike purposes is inconsistent...completed for the transfer, instead of waiting till the plunging shot of contending armies will renew the scene of the past month ? Of course I do not apprehend... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1866 - 828 pages
...military operations from this quarter, and therefore deem it wise, and prudent to prepare in time. The use of Atlanta for warlike purposes is inconsistent...compel the inhabitants to go. Why not go now, when ail the arrangements are completed for the transfer, instead of waiting till the plunging shot of contending... | |
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Now, I know the vindictive nature of our enemy, and that we may have many years of military operations from this Quarter, and therefore deem it wise and prudent to prepare in time. The use of Atlanta for warlike purposes is inconsistent with its character... 
