Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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Page 229
... whole Southern population bubbled with anticipation of the great adventure . Even those who had opposed secession vol- unteered by the thousands . There were not arms enough for such a large number of men , and most of them had to be ...
... whole Southern population bubbled with anticipation of the great adventure . Even those who had opposed secession vol- unteered by the thousands . There were not arms enough for such a large number of men , and most of them had to be ...
Page 248
... whole , and studies Grant's part in it , must come , I think , to the same conclusion . How , then , may one explain his down - at - the - heel carelessness in the weeks that preceded Shiloh , and his amateurish conduct during the ...
... whole , and studies Grant's part in it , must come , I think , to the same conclusion . How , then , may one explain his down - at - the - heel carelessness in the weeks that preceded Shiloh , and his amateurish conduct during the ...
Page 435
... whole were tried and convicted under the Ku - Klux Act . Ten years later the Su- preme Court declared it to be unconstitutional . Grant was bewildered by these complications and unavailing measures , yet his bewilderment did not appear ...
... whole were tried and convicted under the Ku - Klux Act . Ten years later the Su- preme Court declared it to be unconstitutional . Grant was bewildered by these complications and unavailing measures , yet his bewilderment did not appear ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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