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 191
... river and the Cumberland river both flow into the Ohio at or near the town . These large rivers rise far southward in Tennessee and Alabama . It was plain to the Confederate military authorities that Union gunboats , with an army ...
... river and the Cumberland river both flow into the Ohio at or near the town . These large rivers rise far southward in Tennessee and Alabama . It was plain to the Confederate military authorities that Union gunboats , with an army ...
Page 212
... rivers , running northward and parallel to each other , are only twelve miles apart . On the Tennessee river at this spot the enemy has Fort Henry - and due east , twelve miles away - where you see the town of Dover on the Cumberland river ...
... rivers , running northward and parallel to each other , are only twelve miles apart . On the Tennessee river at this spot the enemy has Fort Henry - and due east , twelve miles away - where you see the town of Dover on the Cumberland river ...
Page 288
... river contains the dripping rain of half a continent . One can hardly call it a river ; it is one of the wonders of the world ; it is to rivers what Pike's Peak is to a pleasant little hill . In that amphibious land one meets creeks and ...
... river contains the dripping rain of half a continent . One can hardly call it a river ; it is one of the wonders of the world ; it is to rivers what Pike's Peak is to a pleasant little hill . In that amphibious land one meets creeks and ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Meet General Grant Meet General Grant, William E. Woodward 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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