General Grant's Last Stand; a BiographyScribner, 1936 - 334 pages |
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Page 218
... called for his manifold order book and wrote rapidly in pencil * until he came to the sentence stating how the arms and public property were to be stacked . Grant paused , reflected and then according to Horace Porter " he looked toward ...
... called for his manifold order book and wrote rapidly in pencil * until he came to the sentence stating how the arms and public property were to be stacked . Grant paused , reflected and then according to Horace Porter " he looked toward ...
Page 288
... called a few days later with the son , Frederick , the probable course of the disease with its varying steps of depression and hope . He says that no family ever carried out injunctions more strictly , or gave care more de- votedly ...
... called a few days later with the son , Frederick , the probable course of the disease with its varying steps of depression and hope . He says that no family ever carried out injunctions more strictly , or gave care more de- votedly ...
Page 323
... called his only " legacy , " the weary General asked that he should be carried to where he could " overlook the South view . " At this spot an arbor of foliage on the mountainside framed a sloping vista of distant beauty . Here , for a ...
... called his only " legacy , " the weary General asked that he should be carried to where he could " overlook the South view . " At this spot an arbor of foliage on the mountainside framed a sloping vista of distant beauty . Here , for a ...
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