Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglas, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and BeecherThis volume contains brief biographical sketches of several leading politicians, clergymen, reformers and thinkers of Harriet Beecher Stowe's day, including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Frederick Douglass. |
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... Army Officers - Early Contrast of Rebel Enthusiasm and Union Indifference- Importance of Mr. Stanton's Post - His Birth and Ancestry - His Educa- tion and Law Studies - County Attorney - State Reporter - Defends Mr. McNulty - Removes to ...
... Army Officers - Early Contrast of Rebel Enthusiasm and Union Indifference- Importance of Mr. Stanton's Post - His Birth and Ancestry - His Educa- tion and Law Studies - County Attorney - State Reporter - Defends Mr. McNulty - Removes to ...
Page 121
... Union Army during the Rebell- ion . There were also in the same class several mem- bers who adhered to the rebel cause ; R. S. Ripley , S. G. French , F. Gardner , who surrendered Port Hudson to Gen. Banks , E. B. Holloway , and one or ...
... Union Army during the Rebell- ion . There were also in the same class several mem- bers who adhered to the rebel cause ; R. S. Ripley , S. G. French , F. Gardner , who surrendered Port Hudson to Gen. Banks , E. B. Holloway , and one or ...
Page 124
... military education and expe- rience would be of great advantage in forming the raw material now to be made into an army ... Union , and that he would esteem it a privilege to be assigned to any position where he could be useful . ' The plain ...
... military education and expe- rience would be of great advantage in forming the raw material now to be made into an army ... Union , and that he would esteem it a privilege to be assigned to any position where he could be useful . ' The plain ...
Page 129
... military tact and promptness that showed him when to make the decisive attack , and impelled him to do it . This ... Union army from its place , and indeed left room enough for the whole rebel force to walk out of the fort and escape ...
... military tact and promptness that showed him when to make the decisive attack , and impelled him to do it . This ... Union army from its place , and indeed left room enough for the whole rebel force to walk out of the fort and escape ...
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... Union army backward towards the Tennessee river , until towards sunset it had been pounded into a heterogeneous , irregular line of desperate fighters , and behind them a great mass of terrified and disheartened runaways , hiding under ...
... Union army backward towards the Tennessee river , until towards sunset it had been pounded into a heterogeneous , irregular line of desperate fighters , and behind them a great mass of terrified and disheartened runaways , hiding under ...
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