Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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... lived in a neighboring set- tlement . Her family had come from Pennsylvania , and her father was prosperous , considering the limitations of the time . He owned a large farm and lived in a brick house . It would appear that Jesse ...
... lived in a neighboring set- tlement . Her family had come from Pennsylvania , and her father was prosperous , considering the limitations of the time . He owned a large farm and lived in a brick house . It would appear that Jesse ...
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... lived at the Spottswood Hotel in Rich- mond in 1864 wrote that he was paying twenty dollars a day for his room and board , and that he had never lived so inex- pensively in his life , as the cost of his living was equal to only three ...
... lived at the Spottswood Hotel in Rich- mond in 1864 wrote that he was paying twenty dollars a day for his room and board , and that he had never lived so inex- pensively in his life , as the cost of his living was equal to only three ...
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... lived up to the high ideals of his race . He had the feeling of noblesse oblige — the sense that great authority im- plies great responsibilities and great humility . At his head- quarters table during the Civil War meat was served only ...
... lived up to the high ideals of his race . He had the feeling of noblesse oblige — the sense that great authority im- plies great responsibilities and great humility . At his head- quarters table during the Civil War meat was served only ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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