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Page 154
... direct questions . When time permitted he sat down and wrote out interrogatories in the good old way , as when he sought the guidance of General Scott on the problem of sustaining Fort Sumter . Less than a week after his inauguration he ...
... direct questions . When time permitted he sat down and wrote out interrogatories in the good old way , as when he sought the guidance of General Scott on the problem of sustaining Fort Sumter . Less than a week after his inauguration he ...
Page 160
... direct ob- servation of them . He concluded that it was error to be severe with Union officers " when neither incompetency , nor intentional wrong , nor real injury to the service " was involved , as , for example , where an officer ...
... direct ob- servation of them . He concluded that it was error to be severe with Union officers " when neither incompetency , nor intentional wrong , nor real injury to the service " was involved , as , for example , where an officer ...
Page 161
... direct touch of the old life came before him , and occasionally , too , he faced problems which interested him as a lawyer , even though they may have been apart from his direct experience . He paid a surprising amount of attention to ...
... direct touch of the old life came before him , and occasionally , too , he faced problems which interested him as a lawyer , even though they may have been apart from his direct experience . He paid a surprising amount of attention to ...
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