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 337
... Sherman read all about it in the Confederate newspapers . The element of secrecy , which makes military strategy effective , was overlooked altogether . Sher- man sent General Thomas back to Tennessee to fight Hood , which he did - at ...
... Sherman read all about it in the Confederate newspapers . The element of secrecy , which makes military strategy effective , was overlooked altogether . Sher- man sent General Thomas back to Tennessee to fight Hood , which he did - at ...
Page 338
... Sherman at- tempted to have the fire extinguished , but without success , as his soldiers were both drunk and indifferent . In his official report Sherman lays the burning of Columbia on General Wade Hampton , the Confederate commander ...
... Sherman at- tempted to have the fire extinguished , but without success , as his soldiers were both drunk and indifferent . In his official report Sherman lays the burning of Columbia on General Wade Hampton , the Confederate commander ...
Page 357
... Sherman drives these momentous events out of the attention of the public as incontinently as one drives a flock of ... Sherman - by flag of truce - that talk is in order . So Sherman and Johnston talked in a farmhouse while the two war ...
... Sherman drives these momentous events out of the attention of the public as incontinently as one drives a flock of ... Sherman - by flag of truce - that talk is in order . So Sherman and Johnston talked in a farmhouse while the two war ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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