History of the Twentieth Tennessee Regiment Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A.Publication Committee, consisting of W.J. McMurray, D.J. Roberts, and R.J. Neal, 1904 - 520 páginas |
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Página 454 - In pushing up the Shenandoah 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. 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,...
Página 454 - John R. Meigs, my engineer officer, was murdered beyond Harrisonburg, near Dayton. For this atrocious act all the houses within an area of five miles were burned.
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