Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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Page 17
... close of the day the switches were usually worn out . These beatings do not appear to have caused any rancor in the heart of Ulysses ; or he may have had a tough skin . " I never had any hard feelings against my teacher , " he wrote ...
... close of the day the switches were usually worn out . These beatings do not appear to have caused any rancor in the heart of Ulysses ; or he may have had a tough skin . " I never had any hard feelings against my teacher , " he wrote ...
Page 137
... close that one thinks of it as a kind of mystic fatalism . He married a Southern woman ; a Louisiana general - Zachary Taylor - was his mili- tary ideal ; and he became one of the shining stars of American history through the rebellion ...
... close that one thinks of it as a kind of mystic fatalism . He married a Southern woman ; a Louisiana general - Zachary Taylor - was his mili- tary ideal ; and he became one of the shining stars of American history through the rebellion ...
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... close when Richmond was taken , but one event was not the result of the other . It was merely a coincidence . The war came to an end because Sherman had broken the Confederacy in two in his march through Georgia and the Carolinas ; and ...
... close when Richmond was taken , but one event was not the result of the other . It was merely a coincidence . The war came to an end because Sherman had broken the Confederacy in two in his march through Georgia and the Carolinas ; and ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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