 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...country from the Blue Ridge to the North Mountain has been made untenable for a rebel army. I have destroyed over two thousand barns filled with wheat, hay, and farming implements, over seventy mills filled with wheat and flour. Four herds of cattle have been driven before the army,... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1865 - 738 pages
...the whole country from the Blue Ilidge to the North mountain hoi been made untenable for man. I have destroyed over two thousand barns filled with wheat, hay and farming implements. This destruction embraces the Lura valley and Little Foot, as well as the main valley. All the .houses... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1869 - 560 pages
...him for the popularity of the ruffian and the incendiary. " I have destroyed," he wrote gleefully, " over two thousand barns filled with wheat, hay and...farming implements, and over seventy mills filled with wheat and flour." The bright, tempered sword was laid aside for the indiscriminating, relentless, merciless... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1869 - 550 pages
...him for the popularity of the ruffian and the incendiary. "T have destroyed," he wrote gleefully, " over two thousand barns filled with wheat, hay and...farming implements, and over seventy mills filled with wheat and flour." The bright, tempered sword was laid aside for the indiscriminating, relentless, merciless... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - Augusta County (Va.) - 1882 - 420 pages
...country, from the Blue Ridge to the North Mountain, had been made untenable for a rebel army. I have destroyed over two thousand barns filled with wheat, hay, and farming implements ; over seventy mills filled with wheat and flour ; four herds of cattle have been driven before the... | |
 | Frank A. Burr, Richard Josiah Hinton - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1888 - 466 pages
...country from the Blue Ridge to the North Mountain has been made untenable for a rebel army. I have destroyed over two thousand barns filled with wheat,...implements, and over seventy mills filled with flour and wheat, have driven in front of this army over four thousand head of stock, and have killed and... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - History - 1888 - 574 pages
...burning and destroying, as it went, everything except the dwellings. Sheridan said in his report: "I have destroyed over two thousand barns filled with wheat, hay, and farming implements ; over seventy mills filled with flour and wheat ; have driven in front of the army over four thousand... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Biography & Autobiography - 1889 - 408 pages
...October 15th : " Sheridan reports to Grant, that in moving down the valley to Woodstock, he has burned over two thousand barns filled with wheat, hay, and...implements, and over seventy mills filled with flour and wheat. This was done by order of Grant himself, commander of all the Yankee armies. It is only... | |
 | Joseph J. Sutton - United States - 1892 - 320 pages
...Ridge to the North Mountain was made untenable for a rebel army. I have destroyed over two theusand barns filled with wheat, hay and farming implements, and over seventy mills filled with wheat and flour; have driven in front of this army over four thousand head of stock, and have killed... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - United States - 1893 - 572 pages
...be consumed, destroy." The order was thoroughly carried out. Sheridan says in his report, " I have destroyed over two thousand barns filled with wheat, hay, and farming implements ; over seventy mills filled with flour and wheat ; have driven in front of the army over four thousand... | |
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