Meet General GrantAmerikansk historie, USA's historie, amerikansk biografi om General Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1889, som først havde en militær karriere, bl.a. i Mexican War, og blev en berømt general i Nordstatshæren, Union Army, under den Amerikanske Borgerkrig, 1861-1865, og senere endte som amerikansk president. Beskriver hans liv, levnedsløb og militære og politiske karriere. Udkom i 1928. |
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Page 29
... Horace Porter , who was on Grant's staff during the whole of the 1864 campaign , says that Grant lost his temper only once during those trying months . One day the general and his staff were riding along a Virginia road in the route of ...
... Horace Porter , who was on Grant's staff during the whole of the 1864 campaign , says that Grant lost his temper only once during those trying months . One day the general and his staff were riding along a Virginia road in the route of ...
Page 223
... Horace Porter , years after the war : I had been a light smoker previous to the attack on Donelson . . . . In the accounts published in the papers I was represented as smoking a cigar in the midst of the conflict ; and many persons ...
... Horace Porter , years after the war : I had been a light smoker previous to the attack on Donelson . . . . In the accounts published in the papers I was represented as smoking a cigar in the midst of the conflict ; and many persons ...
Page 261
... Horace Porter , etc. . . . and many more etceteras and lesser lights . Grant's admiration for Sheridan ran beyond all bounds . The phraseology of his praise is so extravagant that it defeats itself . Ten years after the war he told ...
... Horace Porter , etc. . . . and many more etceteras and lesser lights . Grant's admiration for Sheridan ran beyond all bounds . The phraseology of his praise is so extravagant that it defeats itself . Ten years after the war he told ...
Page 320
... Horace Porter says Grant smoked twenty cigars before nightfall , and whittled sticks all day . He kept his coat buttoned , too . Gloves and buttoned coat , and shoes shined . Probably he felt that his first day's ap- pearance on the ...
... Horace Porter says Grant smoked twenty cigars before nightfall , and whittled sticks all day . He kept his coat buttoned , too . Gloves and buttoned coat , and shoes shined . Probably he felt that his first day's ap- pearance on the ...
Page 345
... Horace Porter wrote . He would sit sprawled in a chair at Grant's table and listen by the hour to whatever was going on , hardly ever saying a word . It is a rather curious fact that he never told an obscene story to Grant . He seemed ...
... Horace Porter wrote . He would sit sprawled in a chair at Grant's table and listen by the hour to whatever was going on , hardly ever saying a word . It is a rather curious fact that he never told an obscene story to Grant . He seemed ...
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