 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - United States - 1866 - 886 pages
...army, via Savannah. Those having less than three months to serve will be retained by General Thomas. Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some...may be destroyed ; and if a little salt should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession. Yours,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - Cheyenne Indians - 1866 - 876 pages
...army, via Savannah. Those having less than three months to serve will be retained by General Thomas. Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some...place may be destroyed; and if a little salt should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession. Yours,... | |
 | Columbia (S.C.) - 1873 - 144 pages
...army via Savannah. Those having less than three months to serve, will be retained by General Thomas. Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some...should be thrown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession." General Halleck's letter was not in the form... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1874 - 782 pages
...Depositions for Defence, pp. 84 and 85. Extract from a letter of General Halleck to General Sherman : " Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some...should be thrown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession." And the reply of General Sherman to him : 462... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1875 - 428 pages
...army via Savannah. Those having less than three months to serve, will be retained by General Thomas. Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some...may be destroyed, and, if a little salt should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession. Yours... | |
 | Thomas Budd Van Horne - United States - 1875 - 498 pages
...army, via Savannah. Those having less than three months to serve will be retained by General Thomas. Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some...may be destroyed ; and if a little salt should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession. Yours... | |
 | Thomas Budd Van Horne - United States - 1875 - 500 pages
...army, via Savannah. Those having less than three months to serve will be retained by General Thomas. Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some...place may be destroyed; and if a little salt should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession. Yours... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1875 - 422 pages
...months to serve, will be retained by General Thomas. Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by lome accident the place may be destroyed, and, if a little salt should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession. Yours... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1902 - 622 pages
...premeditation on the part of the general. "Should you capture Charleston," wrote Halleck, December 18, 1864, " I hope that by some accident the place may be destroyed, and if a little salt should be sown upon the site it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession." Sherman... | |
 | Alfred Roman - Confederate States of America - 1884 - 738 pages
...Charleston, I hope that by some accident" — [the word "some "is italicized by General Halleck himself] — "the place may be destroyed ; and if a little salt should be sown upon its * The italics are ours. site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification... | |
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Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some accident the place may be destroyed; and if a little salt should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession... 
