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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 27: (search)
e inhabitants could convey their stock and provisions north of the Potomac, he offered no objection; Do you not think it advisable to notify all citizens living east of the Blue Ridge to move north of the Potomac all their stock, grain, and provisions of every description? There is no doubt about the necessity of clearing out that country, so that it will not support Mosby's gang, and the question is whether it is not better that the people should save what they can.—Grant to Sheridan, November 9. but so long as the war lasts, he said, they must be prevented from raising another crop. Sheridan obeyed his orders to the letter. On the 1st of October, he wrote, from Harrisonburg: What we have destroyed and can destroy in this Valley is worth millions of dollars to the rebel government; on the 7th, he said, from Woodstock: In moving back to this point, the whole country, from the Blue Ridge to the North Mountain, has been made untenable for a rebel army; and still later: I will con