General Grant's Last Stand; a BiographyScribner, 1936 - 334 pages |
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Horace Green. B CHAPTER IX The Heights at Vicksburg § 1 EFORE entering the stupendous Vicksburg cam- paign we must pause for a moment to look at the man who is writing about it . Grant's first article on the battle of Shiloh had met with ...
Horace Green. B CHAPTER IX The Heights at Vicksburg § 1 EFORE entering the stupendous Vicksburg cam- paign we must pause for a moment to look at the man who is writing about it . Grant's first article on the battle of Shiloh had met with ...
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... Vicksburg and to clear the Mississippi River and open navigation to New Orleans . " Now McLernand was a fearless man , a self - willed man , and the only corps commander who wanted to risk a fight when Grant did not . His difficulty was ...
... Vicksburg and to clear the Mississippi River and open navigation to New Orleans . " Now McLernand was a fearless man , a self - willed man , and the only corps commander who wanted to risk a fight when Grant did not . His difficulty was ...
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... Vicksburg forts — a task supposedly as formidable as running the Hudson River past West Point- ; secondly , the Army must march miles down the western side of the Mississippi and be ferried across below Vicksburg without knowledge of ...
... Vicksburg forts — a task supposedly as formidable as running the Hudson River past West Point- ; secondly , the Army must march miles down the western side of the Mississippi and be ferried across below Vicksburg without knowledge of ...
Contents
The Saddle Back of Time | 3 |
Beginning of the Memoirs II | 11 |
A Note to Doctor Douglas West Point Mexico | 16 |
Copyright | |
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