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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+ About the middle of May he was sent by the governor to muster in a new regiment at Mattoon — a small town near the center of the state . This regiment the Twenty - first Illinois Volunteersthad been handled so incompetently that it ...
+ About the middle of May he was sent by the governor to muster in a new regiment at Mattoon — a small town near the center of the state . This regiment the Twenty - first Illinois Volunteersthad been handled so incompetently that it ...
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Within a week he had scraped off the regiment's hard crust , and found that there was nothing underneath but a lot of good - natured farm youths , full of high spirits and little rough . He began to enforce discipline , and camp life ...
Within a week he had scraped off the regiment's hard crust , and found that there was nothing underneath but a lot of good - natured farm youths , full of high spirits and little rough . He began to enforce discipline , and camp life ...
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For weeks Grant's regiment wandered over the harsh Missouri roads , looking for vanishing Confederates and never finding any . Much shoe leather was worn out , but the experience did the regiment a lot of good . It helped Grant , too .
For weeks Grant's regiment wandered over the harsh Missouri roads , looking for vanishing Confederates and never finding any . Much shoe leather was worn out , but the experience did the regiment a lot of good . It helped Grant , too .
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User Review - pjsullivan - LibraryThingThis biography of Grant extends into a history of his times. The writing is informed, elegant, readable, and interesting. And very quotable: "Certainly no man can be a Christian and a soldier at the ... Read full review
Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Meet General Grant Star book |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | H. Liveright, 1928 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 3 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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