We certainly are not required to treat the so-called non-combatant rebels better than they themselves treat each other.

Even herein Virginia, within fifty miles of Washington, they strip their own families of provisions, leaving them, as our army advances, to be fed by us, or to starve within our lines.

We have fed this class of people long enough.

Let them go with their husbands and fathers in the rebel ranks; and if they won't go, we must send them to their friends and natural protectors.

I would destroy every mill and factory within reach which I did not want for my own use.