Do all the damage to railroads and crops you can.

Carry off stock of all descriptions and negroes, so as to prevent further planting.

If the war is to last another year we want the Shenandoah Valley to remain a barren waste.
"U.

S.GRANT, Lieutenant-General.
"HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, "CITY POINT, Va., Sept.

4,--10 A.M .-- 1864.
"MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Charlestown, Va.: "In cleaning out the arms-bearing community of Loudoun County and the subsistence for armies, exercise your own judgment as to who should be exempt from arrest, and as to who should receive pay for their stock, grain, etc.