Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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Page 96
... sense , but common sense is a quality that is so seldom used in warfare that it attracts immediate attention whenever it appears . A church with a broad , square steeple stood just outside the walls of the city . Grant borrowed a ...
... sense , but common sense is a quality that is so seldom used in warfare that it attracts immediate attention whenever it appears . A church with a broad , square steeple stood just outside the walls of the city . Grant borrowed a ...
Page 202
... sense an established national capital . The departments of the Confederate government camped in tem- porary headquarters , in buildings hastily adapted to their use . The Tredegar Iron Works , which were to the South what the Krupp ...
... sense an established national capital . The departments of the Confederate government camped in tem- porary headquarters , in buildings hastily adapted to their use . The Tredegar Iron Works , which were to the South what the Krupp ...
Page 203
... sense did not find much encouragement at that time among the strategists at Wash- ington . Yet any one may readily see that the Union possession of the great river throughout its entire length would not only isolate Texas , Arkansas and ...
... sense did not find much encouragement at that time among the strategists at Wash- ington . Yet any one may readily see that the Union possession of the great river throughout its entire length would not only isolate Texas , Arkansas and ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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