 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 Shenandoah Valley in 1864 - Page 77by George Edward Pond - 1883 - 287 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1881 - 636 pages
...Maryland, as I suppose he has, he should have upon his heels, veterans, militia-men, men on horseback, and everything that can be got to follow, to eat out Virginia...go, so that crows flying over it, for the balance of the season, will have to carry their provender with them." He did not intend that another invading... | |
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1881 - 618 pages
...Maryland, as I suppose he has, he should have upon his heels, veterans, militia-men, men on horseback, and everything that can be got to follow, to eat out Virginia...go, so that crows flying over it, for the balance of the season, will have to carry their provender with them." He did not intend that another invading... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 584 pages
...urged a helter-skelter pursuit by " veterans, militiamen, men on horseback, and everything that could be got to follow, to eat out Virginia clear and clean,...go, so that crows flying over it for the balance of the season will have to carry their provender with them." In a letter of the same date, he said that... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 586 pages
...urged a helter-skelter pursuit by " veterans, militiamen, men on horseback, and everything that could be got to follow, to eat out Virginia clear and clean, as far as they go, so that enn crows flying over it for the balance of the season wiU have to carry their provender with them."... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 594 pages
...urged a helter-skelter pursuit by " veterans, militiamen, men on horseback, and everything that could be got to follow, to eat out Virginia clear and clean, as far as they go, so that Badean, crows flying over it for the balance of the season will have to carry their provender with... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1891 - 696 pages
...should be removed, and the people notified to move out." He further says " that he wants your troops to eat out Virginia clear and clean as far as they...go, so that crows flying over it for the balance of the season will have to carry their provender with them." HW HALLECK, Major-General and Chief of Staff.... | |
 | United States. War Dept - Confederate States of America - 1891 - 694 pages
...should be removed, and the people notified to move out." He further says " that he wants your troops to eat out Virginia clear and clean as far as they go, so that crows flying over it for (he balance of the season will have to carry their provender with them." HW HALLECK. Major-General... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1897 - 456 pages
...Grant writes to the War Department that he wishes all the crops destroyed in the Shenandoah Valley, " so that crows flying over it for the balance of this...season will have to carry their provender with them"; and to Sheridan he says, " If this war is to last another year, we want the Shenandoah Valley to remain... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 624 pages
...carried out his threat, and laid the best part of the town in .ashes.2 militiamen, men on horseback, and everything that can be got to follow to eat out Virginia...season will have to carry their provender with them." — OR, vol. xxxvii. part ii. pp. 300, 301. Grant's support of Hunter is incomprehensible unless it... | |
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