Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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Page 223
... newspaper suggested humorously , and this struck the fancy of the American nation . For months he was known as Uncondi- tional Surrender Grant , and " I propose to move immediately upon your works " became the motto of the Union army ...
... newspaper suggested humorously , and this struck the fancy of the American nation . For months he was known as Uncondi- tional Surrender Grant , and " I propose to move immediately upon your works " became the motto of the Union army ...
Page 291
... newspaper correspondents as spies . He could not turn around , he said , without " some little whippersnapper of the press " dog- ging his footsteps , and lying about him in a newspaper . " I have ordered the arrest of one , " he wrote ...
... newspaper correspondents as spies . He could not turn around , he said , without " some little whippersnapper of the press " dog- ging his footsteps , and lying about him in a newspaper . " I have ordered the arrest of one , " he wrote ...
Page 298
... newspaper until a copy of it had been sent to army headquarters . McClernand forgot all about this rule , and the correspondents wired his address to their newspapers . Sherman came dashing up to Grant with a St. Louis news- paper in ...
... newspaper until a copy of it had been sent to army headquarters . McClernand forgot all about this rule , and the correspondents wired his address to their newspapers . Sherman came dashing up to Grant with a St. Louis news- paper in ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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