The Shenandoah Valley in 1864, 第 11 卷Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883 - 287 頁 |
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advance Aggregate present army arrived artillery attack Averell Averell's Baltimore Battalion Battery battle Berryville Blue Ridge Breckenridge bridge brigade BRIGADIER-GENERAL burned camp campaign Capt captured cavalry Cedar Creek Charlottesville City Point Colonel command Confederate Crook crossed Custer despatch division of cavalry Duffié Early Early's enemy enemy's fire Fisher's Hill Fitz Lee's flank force ford Front Royal Gordon Gordonsville Grant guns Halleck Halltown Harper's Ferry Harrisonburg Hunter infantry Kershaw's division killed and wounded Lomax loss Lynchburg Martinsburg Maryland McCausland Merritt miles Monocacy morning Mount Jackson moved night Nineteenth Corps officers Ohio Opequon orders Pennsylvania pickets Port Republic position Potomac prisoners railroad Ramseur reached rear reconnoissance regiments reinforcements reported retreat Richmond river road Rodes Rosser sent Shenandoah Valley Sheridan Sigel Sixth Corps skirmishers Snicker's Staunton Strasburg Thoburn's Torbert trains troops Union Valley pike Virginia Central Railroad wagons Washington West Virginia Wharton Winchester
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第 201 頁 - I have destroyed over 2,000 barns filled with wheat and hay and farming implements, over 70 mills filled with flour and wheat; have driven in front of the army over 4,000 head of stock, and have killed and issued to the troops not less than 3,000 sheep. This destruction embraces the Luray valley and Little Fort valley as well as the main valley.
第 119 頁 - Valley, where it is expected you will have to go first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite the enemy to return. Take all provisions, forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command ; such as cannot be consumed, destroy.
第 117 頁 - I want Sheridan put in command of all the troops in the field, with instructions to put himself south of the enemy, and follow him to the death. Wherever the enemy goes, let our troops go also.
第 153 頁 - Go in ! For the convenience of forage, the teams for supplying the army were kept at Harper's Ferry. I asked him if he could get out his teams and supplies in time to make an attack on the ensuing Tuesday morning. His reply was, that he could before daylight on Monday.
第 153 頁 - He was off promptly to time, and I may here add, that the result was such that I have never since deemed it necessary to visit General Sheridan before giving him orders.
第 117 頁 - ... or of following him to the "death," in any direction. I repeat to you, it will neither be done nor attempted, unless you watch it every day and hour...
第 79 頁 - If the enemy has left Maryland, as I suppose he has, he should have upon his heels veterans, militiamen, men on horseback, and everything that can be got to follow to eat out Virginia clear and clean as far as they go, so that crows flying over it for the balance of this season will have to carry their provender with them.
第 75 頁 - I think, on reflection, it would have a bad effect for me to leave here, and with General Ord at Baltimore, and Hunter and Wright with the forces following the enemy up, could do no good. I have great faith that the enemy will never be able to get back with much of his force.
第 120 頁 - Take all provisions, forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command. Such as cannot be consumed, destroy. It is not desirable that the buildings should be destroyed— they should, rather, be protected; but the people should be informed that so long as an army can subsist among them recurrences of these raids must be expected, and we are determined to stop them at all hazards.
第 221 頁 - Kershaw was directed to cross his division over the creek as quietly as possible, and to form it into column of brigades as he did so, and advance in that manner against the enemy's left breastwork, extending to the right or left as might be necessary.