Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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... President . The speculation appeared hazardous and uncertain , and Gould and Fisk would have dropped it ; but Corbin assured them that he had the President fixed , so they wavered between their desire to make money and their suspicion ...
... President . The speculation appeared hazardous and uncertain , and Gould and Fisk would have dropped it ; but Corbin assured them that he had the President fixed , so they wavered between their desire to make money and their suspicion ...
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... President's office . Or , so it seemed . At that time Grant's principal secretary was General Orville E. Babcock , a pleasant and obliging officer whom we have met once before , at Appomattox , where he sat conversing with General Lee ...
... President's office . Or , so it seemed . At that time Grant's principal secretary was General Orville E. Babcock , a pleasant and obliging officer whom we have met once before , at Appomattox , where he sat conversing with General Lee ...
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... President . The vice- presidential nominee was B. Gratz Brown . The nomination of Greeley was a gigantic mistake . He had long passed his prime , and had become a queer , crotchety man who held a mass of contradictory opinions that were ...
... President . The vice- presidential nominee was B. Gratz Brown . The nomination of Greeley was a gigantic mistake . He had long passed his prime , and had become a queer , crotchety man who held a mass of contradictory opinions that were ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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