General Grant's Last Stand; a BiographyScribner, 1936 - 334 pages |
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... direction of Pittsburg Landing . Grant rose hastily , penned a note for Buell , counselling him to make haste , boarded a dispatch boat , stopped a moment at Crump's Landing to tell Lew Wallace to get his troops in line , and arrived at ...
... direction of Pittsburg Landing . Grant rose hastily , penned a note for Buell , counselling him to make haste , boarded a dispatch boat , stopped a moment at Crump's Landing to tell Lew Wallace to get his troops in line , and arrived at ...
Page 156
... directions ; their commander having found some safe re- treat to get into before they started . . . • There had been great consternation in Petersburg , as we were well aware , about a rumored mine that we were going to explode . I ...
... directions ; their commander having found some safe re- treat to get into before they started . . . • There had been great consternation in Petersburg , as we were well aware , about a rumored mine that we were going to explode . I ...
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Horace Green. the road in either direction may be seen a vista of sloping fields . Lee paused on the steps . For some moments he gazed in the direction of his troops on the hillside ' and absent - mindedly smote his gloved right fist ...
Horace Green. the road in either direction may be seen a vista of sloping fields . Lee paused on the steps . For some moments he gazed in the direction of his troops on the hillside ' and absent - mindedly smote his gloved right fist ...
Contents
The Saddle Back of Time | 3 |
Beginning of the Memoirs II | 11 |
A Note to Doctor Douglas West Point Mexico | 16 |
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