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Porter was about to blow up his boats and try to escape when Sherman's troops arrived unexpectedly on the squashy banks of the creek . They drove off the Confederates , but it took three days to raise the trees from the stream so the ...
Porter was about to blow up his boats and try to escape when Sherman's troops arrived unexpectedly on the squashy banks of the creek . They drove off the Confederates , but it took three days to raise the trees from the stream so the ...
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The steamers did not carry any troops , but only volunteer crews . The passage was made on April 16th , a moonless night . The Confederates burned houses on the shore for illumination , and the river was almost as light as it is at noon ...
The steamers did not carry any troops , but only volunteer crews . The passage was made on April 16th , a moonless night . The Confederates burned houses on the shore for illumination , and the river was almost as light as it is at noon ...
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Then the Union troops were piled into the crater ... far too many of them . They were so many that they became a packed mob , floundering in the loose earth . The Confederates quickly recovered and lined the edge of the crater .
Then the Union troops were piled into the crater ... far too many of them . They were so many that they became a packed mob , floundering in the loose earth . The Confederates quickly recovered and lined the edge of the crater .
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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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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