Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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Page 260
... newspapers will ignore my name . " When the army was before Vicksburg somebody told him that three newspaper correspondents had been killed by a bursting shell . " Good ! " Sherman exclaimed . " Now we'll have news from hell before ...
... newspapers will ignore my name . " When the army was before Vicksburg somebody told him that three newspaper correspondents had been killed by a bursting shell . " Good ! " Sherman exclaimed . " Now we'll have news from hell before ...
Page 291
... newspaper correspondents especially . . . a failure , with such adjectives as stupid , miserable , disgraceful and egregious pre- fixed to the word . Grant said nothing , but Sherman fumed and swore . He declared that the Northern ...
... newspaper correspondents especially . . . a failure , with such adjectives as stupid , miserable , disgraceful and egregious pre- fixed to the word . Grant said nothing , but Sherman fumed and swore . He declared that the Northern ...
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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