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 66
... Southern idea of emancipating the negro slowly faded to a shadow . But what of the North ? Long before the ... Southern leaders to maintain control of the national government . They created a Southern oligarchy in Congress which was so ...
... Southern idea of emancipating the negro slowly faded to a shadow . But what of the North ? Long before the ... Southern leaders to maintain control of the national government . They created a Southern oligarchy in Congress which was so ...
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... Southern woman ; a Louisiana general - Zachary Taylor - was his mili- tary ideal ; and he became one of the shining ... Southern affairs . . . in fighting Southern men , in conquering Southern states , and in endeavoring to reconstruct ...
... Southern woman ; a Louisiana general - Zachary Taylor - was his mili- tary ideal ; and he became one of the shining ... Southern affairs . . . in fighting Southern men , in conquering Southern states , and in endeavoring to reconstruct ...
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William E. Woodward. Southern Draft - Evaders 229 of the war . Though he was censured bitterly by his Southern contemporaries , history will deal more kindly with him , for his task was really one of superhuman size . In April , 1861 ...
William E. Woodward. Southern Draft - Evaders 229 of the war . Though he was censured bitterly by his Southern contemporaries , history will deal more kindly with him , for his task was really one of superhuman size . In April , 1861 ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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