Address of General Archibald Blakeley At the Reunion of the Army of the Cumberla
Address of General Archibald Blakeley At the Reunion of the Army of the Cumberla
Archibald Blakeley
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No reliable information could be obtained from them. They were spies. They were intensified in all this by the belief that they were right. In conducting military operations in populations of this kind, the problem is very simple. While they did not take up arms, molest our troops or commit overt acts of treason, they were treated as if they did not exist, and our armies moved on to find and crush armed and organ- ized rebellion. General Grant tells us that after Pittsburgh Land- ing and Shiloh..., he paid but little attention to the popu- lation, except to prevent abuses, pillaging, pilfering, etc. , but through his quartermasters and commissaries he took whatever he needed for supplies on the theory that if he did 10 Army of the Cumberland. not take it, when he had passed away the enemy would come along and take it. And the taking of it by our forces prevented the sup- plies from falling into the hands of the enemy. Of Grant's movement from the Mississippi to the rear of Vicksburg, he says : ' ' When the movement from Bruinsburg commenced we were without a wagon-train.
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