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He threw up his contract , and the regiment — without means of transportation — sat down in the tropic jungle and waited while the colonel wondered what he ought to do . In a few days cholera ran through the regiment like fire in a ...
He threw up his contract , and the regiment — without means of transportation — sat down in the tropic jungle and waited while the colonel wondered what he ought to do . In a few days cholera ran through the regiment like fire in a ...
Page 118
The regiment , under the inspiration of Grant's energy , struggled to its feet . The sick men and the soldiers ' wives were put on mules , while the rest of the regiment started out on foot . There were children , too , in the ...
The regiment , under the inspiration of Grant's energy , struggled to its feet . The sick men and the soldiers ' wives were put on mules , while the rest of the regiment started out on foot . There were children , too , in the ...
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Within a week he had scraped off the regiment's hard crust , and found that there was nothing underneath but a lot of good - natured farm youths , full of high spirits and little rough . He began to enforce discipline , and camp life ...
Within a week he had scraped off the regiment's hard crust , and found that there was nothing underneath but a lot of good - natured farm youths , full of high spirits and little rough . He began to enforce discipline , and camp life ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Meet General Grant A Star book |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | Garden Publishing Company, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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