| William Tecumseh Sherman - 1875 - 416 halaman
...direction of Richmond, a movement that had to be met and defeated, or the war was necessarily at an end. Were I to express my measure of the relative importance...former at one, and the latter at ten, or the maximum. I now close this long chapter by giving a tabular statement of the losses during the march, and the... | |
| Asa Mahan - 1877 - 482 halaman
...direction of Richmond, a movement that had to be met and defeated, or the war was necessarily at an end. Were I to express my measure of the relative importance...would place the former at one, and the latter at ten, as the maximum." General Sherman is unquestionably right in his estimate of the relative importance... | |
| Asa Mahan - 1877 - 474 halaman
...direction of Richmond, a movement that had to be met and defeated, or the war was necessarily at an end. Were I to express my measure of the relative importance...would place the former at one, and the latter at ten, as the maximum." General Sherman is unquestionably right in his estimate of the relative importance... | |
| Adam Badeau - 1881 - 786 halaman
...their junction at a point still in the enemy's hands was indispensable. Sherman himself declared : " Were I to express my measure of the relative importance...former at one, and the latter at ten, or the maximum." * On the 29th of January, he wrote to Grant: " You may rest assured that I will keep ray troops well... | |
| J. Hagerty - 1884 - 156 halaman
...country could not possibly carry on the war for another year, etc. Of this campaign Sherman says : The relative importance of the march to the sea and of that from Savannah northward, " I would place at one for the former, and ten for the latter." In countermanding these orders of Grant's, Halleck... | |
| James Penny Boyd - 1892 - 630 halaman
...from a coast base. Of the difference between this and his " March to the Sea," Sherman said : — " Were I to express my measure of the relative importance...former at one and the latter at ten, or the maximum." On January 29th, Sherman sent his last dispatch for a fortnight to Grant. It read : — " You may rest... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - 1904 - 692 halaman
...reached Goldsborough fN.CA where two days later Sherman's army made with him the junction desired.2 " Were I to express my measure of the relative importance...march to the sea and of that from Savannah northward," wrote Sherman in his Memoirs, " I would place the former at one and the latter at ten or the maximum."8... | |
| Charles Francis Adams - 1906 - 58 halaman
...Grant's advance on Richmond in May, 1864. Mr. Rhodes quotes General Sherman as saying in his Memoirs : " Were I to express my measure of the relative importance...former at one and the latter at ten, or the maximum." We are then told, in a foot-note to the same page,1 that General Schofield was of a different opinion.... | |
| Charles Francis Adams - 1905 - 66 halaman
...Grant's advance on Richmond in May, 1864. Mr. Rhodes quotes General Sherman as saying in his Memoirs : " Were I to express my measure of the relative importance...former at one and the latter at ten, or the maximum." We are then told, in a foot-note to the same page,1 that Genera] Schofield was of a different opinion.... | |
| Charles Francis Adams - 1905 - 78 halaman
...Grant's advance on Richmond in May, 1864. Mr. Rhodes quotes General Sherman as saying in his Memoirs : " Were I to express my measure of the relative importance...former at one and the latter at ten, or the maximum." We are then told, in a foot-note to the same page,1 that Genera] Schofield was of a different opinion.... | |
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