Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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Page 265
... wanted permission to do this and that . . . business men who had come down from the North to make money out of the war - some of them his own rela- tives ... cotton speculators people who wanted passes to go outside his lines on some ...
... wanted permission to do this and that . . . business men who had come down from the North to make money out of the war - some of them his own rela- tives ... cotton speculators people who wanted passes to go outside his lines on some ...
Page 447
... wanted Fish to send Motley a cablegram , telling him to get out of the embassy forthwith . Fish said that such a procedure would not be dignified , but Grant wanted it done , anyway . It was not done ; Fish finally persuaded him to let ...
... wanted Fish to send Motley a cablegram , telling him to get out of the embassy forthwith . Fish said that such a procedure would not be dignified , but Grant wanted it done , anyway . It was not done ; Fish finally persuaded him to let ...
Page 490
... wanted the family to take as a gift . They finally took it as a loan . It was on these two contributions that the General and Mrs. Grant lived for some time . Mr. Vanderbilt said nothing about his one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ...
... wanted the family to take as a gift . They finally took it as a loan . It was on these two contributions that the General and Mrs. Grant lived for some time . Mr. Vanderbilt said nothing about his one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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