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 47
... republican . It is an Episcopal church . Contrary to the expectation of you and the rest of my Bethel friends , I have not been the least homesick . I would not go home on any account whatever . Poor homesick boy ! Writing bravely of ...
... republican . It is an Episcopal church . Contrary to the expectation of you and the rest of my Bethel friends , I have not been the least homesick . I would not go home on any account whatever . Poor homesick boy ! Writing bravely of ...
Page 125
... Republicans , and Grant was a Democrat - so the appointment went to another man . Now he was on the crumbling edge of desperation , and he went about St. Louis borrowing small sums of money . Some of his acquaintances would cross the ...
... Republicans , and Grant was a Democrat - so the appointment went to another man . Now he was on the crumbling edge of desperation , and he went about St. Louis borrowing small sums of money . Some of his acquaintances would cross the ...
Page 131
... Republican party was organized . It swallowed the small abolition group at one gulp . Within a year it was strong enough to control many of the Northern states . There was no abolition plank in the Republican platform , and the anti ...
... Republican party was organized . It swallowed the small abolition group at one gulp . Within a year it was strong enough to control many of the Northern states . There was no abolition plank in the Republican platform , and the anti ...
Page 134
... Republican puppy . " A fist fight , in which a dozen members engaged , followed this critical observation . Mr. Covode , of Pennsylvania , tried to brain a Southern gentle- man with a cuspidor . Mr. Cadwallader Washburne seized Mr ...
... Republican puppy . " A fist fight , in which a dozen members engaged , followed this critical observation . Mr. Covode , of Pennsylvania , tried to brain a Southern gentle- man with a cuspidor . Mr. Cadwallader Washburne seized Mr ...
Page 153
... Republican party soon pulled itself together , picked up the shattered pieces of its program , and went ahead . Not- withstanding the Supreme Court's decision , the Northern states , through their legislatures , continued to put ...
... Republican party soon pulled itself together , picked up the shattered pieces of its program , and went ahead . Not- withstanding the Supreme Court's decision , the Northern states , through their legislatures , continued to put ...
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