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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... regiment was stationed in Texas . He says in his Memoirs : Each officer carried a shot - gun , and every evening , after going into camp , some would go out and soon return with venison and wild turkeys enough for the entire camp . I ...
... regiment was stationed in Texas . He says in his Memoirs : Each officer carried a shot - gun , and every evening , after going into camp , some would go out and soon return with venison and wild turkeys enough for the entire camp . I ...
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... regiment . So the finest horseman at West Point had to be content with a second lieutenant's place in the Fourth Infantry , which at that time was stationed at Jefferson Barracks , an army post eight or ten miles below St. Louis . On ...
... regiment . So the finest horseman at West Point had to be content with a second lieutenant's place in the Fourth Infantry , which at that time was stationed at Jefferson Barracks , an army post eight or ten miles below St. Louis . On ...
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... regiment was ordered down the Mississippi River and across western Louisiana to the Texas border . Among Grant's classmates at West Point there had been a cadet named Frederick T. Dent . This young man was wholesome , cheerful , and ...
... regiment was ordered down the Mississippi River and across western Louisiana to the Texas border . Among Grant's classmates at West Point there had been a cadet named Frederick T. Dent . This young man was wholesome , cheerful , and ...
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... regiment in May , so whatever courting he did must have been done in three months . I fancy that there was not much courting done by him at any time . Julia liked to ride , and she and the young lieutenant went cantering along the ...
... regiment in May , so whatever courting he did must have been done in three months . I fancy that there was not much courting done by him at any time . Julia liked to ride , and she and the young lieutenant went cantering along the ...
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... regiment left . Before separating it was definitely understood that at a convenient time we would join our fortunes , and not let the removal of a regiment trouble us . In writing his Memoirs he avoided sentiment as if it were a deadly ...
... regiment left . Before separating it was definitely understood that at a convenient time we would join our fortunes , and not let the removal of a regiment trouble us . In writing his Memoirs he avoided sentiment as if it were a deadly ...
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