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 34
... letter , entirely devoid of cordiality or the flowery graces . No matter . Mr. Hamer was the kind of man who has a Gift for Doing the Right Thing . Sitting at Washington in the seats of the mighty and thinking of his Ohio district and ...
... letter , entirely devoid of cordiality or the flowery graces . No matter . Mr. Hamer was the kind of man who has a Gift for Doing the Right Thing . Sitting at Washington in the seats of the mighty and thinking of his Ohio district and ...
Page 46
... letter to a young cousin named McKinstry Griffith , in which he declared that he liked West Point a lot , and was glad to be there . I shall quote part of this letter , not because it deals with anything of importance , but only to show ...
... letter to a young cousin named McKinstry Griffith , in which he declared that he liked West Point a lot , and was glad to be there . I shall quote part of this letter , not because it deals with anything of importance , but only to show ...
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... letter to his father he said : I heard much said of the extreme difficulty of ginning cotton , that is , separating it from its seeds . There were a number of respectable gentlemen at Mrs. Greene's who all agreed that if a machine could ...
... letter to his father he said : I heard much said of the extreme difficulty of ginning cotton , that is , separating it from its seeds . There were a number of respectable gentlemen at Mrs. Greene's who all agreed that if a machine could ...
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... letter in favor of immediate annexation . His career had been so color- less that nobody knew anything against him , and the Demo- crats managed to elect him . The results of the election cheered the annexationists won- derfully , and ...
... letter in favor of immediate annexation . His career had been so color- less that nobody knew anything against him , and the Demo- crats managed to elect him . The results of the election cheered the annexationists won- derfully , and ...
Page 81
... letter home immediately afterward . was a hurried epistle , full of misspelled words . During the days fight I scarsely thought of the prob- ability of being touched myself ( although 9 lb. shots were whistling all round ) until near ...
... letter home immediately afterward . was a hurried epistle , full of misspelled words . During the days fight I scarsely thought of the prob- ability of being touched myself ( although 9 lb. shots were whistling all round ) until near ...
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