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Page 142
... Grant said he did not mind how much praying he did if it made his wife and children feel better . And yet in what Grant did and in what he wrote , it is true that there is something of the driving force , the exalted moral certainty ...
... Grant said he did not mind how much praying he did if it made his wife and children feel better . And yet in what Grant did and in what he wrote , it is true that there is something of the driving force , the exalted moral certainty ...
Page 167
... Grant was ruined by a swindler named Ferdinand Ward , who succeeded , with no other devices than a small bogus bank and a double set of books , in collecting from Grant and his family and a good many other people , under the pretense of ...
... Grant was ruined by a swindler named Ferdinand Ward , who succeeded , with no other devices than a small bogus bank and a double set of books , in collecting from Grant and his family and a good many other people , under the pretense of ...
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... Grant's Personal Memoirs . The book has an interest quite equal to Grant's , and an almost equal importance , but is as different from the Personal Memoirs as Sherman's personality was from Grant's . Grant is lucid and simple , but in ...
... Grant's Personal Memoirs . The book has an interest quite equal to Grant's , and an almost equal importance , but is as different from the Personal Memoirs as Sherman's personality was from Grant's . Grant is lucid and simple , but in ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
Copyright | |
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War Edmund Wilson Limited preview - 1994 |
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War Edmund Wilson Limited preview - 2019 |
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