Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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Page 330
... stand still . To remain where he was would be simply playing into the enemy's hands . Lee would have liked nothing better than to have kept the Union army in a state of inert catalepsy before his Cold Harbor trenches for an indefinite ...
... stand still . To remain where he was would be simply playing into the enemy's hands . Lee would have liked nothing better than to have kept the Union army in a state of inert catalepsy before his Cold Harbor trenches for an indefinite ...
Page 467
... Stand fast , stand firm , stand sure ' - seems as fitting to ancient heroes of the name as to Ulysses with his proposition to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer . " The prevailing tradition among the descendants of General ...
... Stand fast , stand firm , stand sure ' - seems as fitting to ancient heroes of the name as to Ulysses with his proposition to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer . " The prevailing tradition among the descendants of General ...
Page 496
... stand in front of his house . I do not know why they stood there ; the habit of standing in front of houses is a pro- found mystery that has never been explained . The news- papers said that the General's admirers loitered about his ...
... stand in front of his house . I do not know why they stood there ; the habit of standing in front of houses is a pro- found mystery that has never been explained . The news- papers said that the General's admirers loitered about his ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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