Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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... West Point for Ulysses . " How would you like that ? " he asked . " First - rate , " the boy replied . What I have just quoted contains Jesse Grant's account of this occurrence , as he related it thirty years later . It does not agree ...
... West Point for Ulysses . " How would you like that ? " he asked . " First - rate , " the boy replied . What I have just quoted contains Jesse Grant's account of this occurrence , as he related it thirty years later . It does not agree ...
Page 54
... West Point did not give Grant much of an education , but its moral pressure was overwhelming , and he retained an im- mense respect for the Academy as long as he lived . " I think West Point is the best school in the world , " he told ...
... West Point did not give Grant much of an education , but its moral pressure was overwhelming , and he retained an im- mense respect for the Academy as long as he lived . " I think West Point is the best school in the world , " he told ...
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... west bank of the Mississippi . If it were only possible to get below Vicksburg and come up from the south on the east bank - the great problem of getting there would be solved . From the south the place was readily accessible , over ...
... west bank of the Mississippi . If it were only possible to get below Vicksburg and come up from the south on the east bank - the great problem of getting there would be solved . From the south the place was readily accessible , over ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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