A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant: With a Portrait and Sketch of Schuyler Colfax |
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... officers through the long summer day , with more than ordinary zeal and diligence . Even the local names betokened an admiration of military heroes . Ripley was so called in honor of General Ripley ; Scott township , of Winfield Scott ...
... officers through the long summer day , with more than ordinary zeal and diligence . Even the local names betokened an admiration of military heroes . Ripley was so called in honor of General Ripley ; Scott township , of Winfield Scott ...
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... officer attained much eminence who was not a graduate . At the outset of the Rebellion there were eighty - six cadets ... officers , including two hundred and seventy of Southern birth . Two hundred and two of these went with the Rebels ...
... officer attained much eminence who was not a graduate . At the outset of the Rebellion there were eighty - six cadets ... officers , including two hundred and seventy of Southern birth . Two hundred and two of these went with the Rebels ...
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... officers of our army . Many are rejected at the start , and less than half of those who gain admission ever graduate ... officer in our army . It is now thirty dollars per month ; in Grant's time it was less . From this , clothing , mess ...
... officers of our army . Many are rejected at the start , and less than half of those who gain admission ever graduate ... officer in our army . It is now thirty dollars per month ; in Grant's time it was less . From this , clothing , mess ...
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... officer of our army , and each composed of members taken indiscrimi- nately from the four classes . The captain of a ... officers do not act as spies on their fellow - students . Grant , quiet and unambitious , was never made lieutenant ...
... officer of our army , and each composed of members taken indiscrimi- nately from the four classes . The captain of a ... officers do not act as spies on their fellow - students . Grant , quiet and unambitious , was never made lieutenant ...
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... officers and comrades had made a pet of Jack , already a tall , stout fel- low , and something of a dandy . His place was on the left of Grant , whom he one day crowded out . Grant , thinking it might be a mistake , and slow to take ...
... officers and comrades had made a pet of Jack , already a tall , stout fel- low , and something of a dandy . His place was on the left of Grant , whom he one day crowded out . Grant , thinking it might be a mistake , and slow to take ...
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Page 431 - Up from the south at break of day, Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay, The affrighted air with a shudder bore, Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away.
Page 481 - ... the officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged, and each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands. The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage.
Page 477 - AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, general, that I am equally anxious for peace with yourself; and the whole North entertains the same feeling. The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
Page 333 - ... of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake....
Page 431 - Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster. Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster, The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting...
Page 474 - GENERAL: I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and therefore, before considering your proposition, ask the terms you will offer on condition of its surrender.
Page 431 - But there is a road from Winchester town, A good broad highway leading down ; And there, through the flush of the morning light, A steed as black as the steeds of night Was seen to pass as with eagle flight...
Page 380 - With this high honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you. I scarcely need to add, that, with what I here speak for the nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence.
Page 472 - April 7, 1865 GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...
Page 432 - But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire ; He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. The first that the general saw were the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops. What was done ? what to do ? a glance told him both...