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Grant Deceived 247 Grant took up his headquarters at Savannah , on the other side of the river , and nine miles from the main body of his army . He went back and forth every day in a river steamer , going to work in the morning like a ...
Grant Deceived 247 Grant took up his headquarters at Savannah , on the other side of the river , and nine miles from the main body of his army . He went back and forth every day in a river steamer , going to work in the morning like a ...
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But while he was getting ready to run Jackson to earth the latter made one of his famous swift marches and appeared suddenly between Pope's army and the city of Washington Before Pope could change front to meet this unexpected state of ...
But while he was getting ready to run Jackson to earth the latter made one of his famous swift marches and appeared suddenly between Pope's army and the city of Washington Before Pope could change front to meet this unexpected state of ...
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The business of the Army of the Potomac , as he conceived it , was to crush Lee's army and destroy it . His method of doing this was to invade Virginia from Washington and encounter Lee on his own ground .
The business of the Army of the Potomac , as he conceived it , was to crush Lee's army and destroy it . His method of doing this was to invade Virginia from Washington and encounter Lee on his own ground .
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Meet General Grant A Star book |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | Garden Publishing Company, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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