General Grant's Last Stand; a BiographyScribner, 1936 - 334 pages |
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... White House . But in a stormy third- term convention events again swept him aside , this time in bitter humiliation . Superficially placid , inwardly cha- grined ( for he had not yet learned to treat Kipling's two impostors , fame and ...
... White House . But in a stormy third- term convention events again swept him aside , this time in bitter humiliation . Superficially placid , inwardly cha- grined ( for he had not yet learned to treat Kipling's two impostors , fame and ...
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... White House was now somewhat hazard- ous . He determined therefore to fight his way along the rail- road and canal till he was as near to Richmond as it was pos- sible to get , or until attacked . He did this , destroying the canal as ...
... White House was now somewhat hazard- ous . He determined therefore to fight his way along the rail- road and canal till he was as near to Richmond as it was pos- sible to get , or until attacked . He did this , destroying the canal as ...
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... White House of their still United States . Grant remarks , with a degree of satisfaction , that " the sight was varied and grand . " Meade's army [ Grant wrote in the Memoirs ] occupied over six hours of the first day in passing the ...
... White House of their still United States . Grant remarks , with a degree of satisfaction , that " the sight was varied and grand . " Meade's army [ Grant wrote in the Memoirs ] occupied over six hours of the first day in passing the ...
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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