Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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Page 92
... hand - to- hand fights on a stair - case , the Mexicans retreating slowly up the stairs as the Americans advanced . The Mexican War was a grubby affair , without a trace of sentiment , and singularly lacking in chivalrous gestures . The ...
... hand - to- hand fights on a stair - case , the Mexicans retreating slowly up the stairs as the Americans advanced . The Mexican War was a grubby affair , without a trace of sentiment , and singularly lacking in chivalrous gestures . The ...
Page 296
... hand and defeated him , while with his right hand he struck at Johnston and drove him out of the state capital . Then he turned to face Pemberton again , but the Confederate commander had retired behind the defenses of Vicksburg . In ...
... hand and defeated him , while with his right hand he struck at Johnston and drove him out of the state capital . Then he turned to face Pemberton again , but the Confederate commander had retired behind the defenses of Vicksburg . In ...
Page 368
... hand . " See that hand , " he declaimed in a fog - horn manner . " That very hand signed the commission of Ulysses S. Grant as a colonel , and it was the best day's work it ever did . " The crowd looked fretfully at the governor's hand ...
... hand . " See that hand , " he declaimed in a fog - horn manner . " That very hand signed the commission of Ulysses S. Grant as a colonel , and it was the best day's work it ever did . " The crowd looked fretfully at the governor's hand ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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