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 106
... Fort Donelson , and the name of " Unconditional Surrender " Grant was in every newspaper and on every tongue , his former landlord accidentally discovered " U. S. Grant " scratched with a diamond ring on a pane of glass in the cot- tage ...
... Fort Donelson , and the name of " Unconditional Surrender " Grant was in every newspaper and on every tongue , his former landlord accidentally discovered " U. S. Grant " scratched with a diamond ring on a pane of glass in the cot- tage ...
Page 121
... Fort Donelson , which Grant captured in 1862 , with fifteen thousand prisoners , including General Buckner . ) I think Grant felt a relief at getting out of the army , though he was crestfallen because of his summary dismissal - for his ...
... Fort Donelson , which Grant captured in 1862 , with fifteen thousand prisoners , including General Buckner . ) I think Grant felt a relief at getting out of the army , though he was crestfallen because of his summary dismissal - for his ...
Page 191
... forts - Fort Henry on the Tennessee and Fort Donelson on the Cumber- land - at about the place where the state line separates Ken- tucky from Tennessee . Then it occurred to the Confederates that as an additional defense they ought to ...
... forts - Fort Henry on the Tennessee and Fort Donelson on the Cumber- land - at about the place where the state line separates Ken- tucky from Tennessee . Then it occurred to the Confederates that as an additional defense they ought to ...
Page 200
... Fort Donelson- where a Union army won against a numerically superior force of Confederates . And at Fort Donelson , Grant's army , smaller than that of the Confederates at the beginning , was larger at the end , because of the arrival ...
... Fort Donelson- where a Union army won against a numerically superior force of Confederates . And at Fort Donelson , Grant's army , smaller than that of the Confederates at the beginning , was larger at the end , because of the arrival ...
Page 212
... Fort Henry . I think we can take that fort in a few days ; then we'll march our army across the twelve miles of land and besiege Fort Donelson . ” " Yes , " said Halleck dryly . He was thinking of the great subtle campaigns of the past ...
... Fort Henry . I think we can take that fort in a few days ; then we'll march our army across the twelve miles of land and besiege Fort Donelson . ” " Yes , " said Halleck dryly . He was thinking of the great subtle campaigns of the past ...
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Page 166 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 205 - Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain of my soul.
Page 222 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 127 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 188 - It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards. From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety.
Page 196 - We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil, Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil; And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far, Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star.
Page 195 - Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again, Shouting the battlecry of freedom, We will rally from the hillside, we'll gather from the plain, Shouting the battlecry of freedom.
Page 266 - They will see that all this class of people are furnished with passes and required to leave; and any one returning after such notification will be arrested and held in confinement until an opportunity occurs of sending them out as prisoners, unless furnished with permits from these head-quarters.
Page 63 - I concluded to relinquish my school and turn my attention to perfecting the Machine. I made one before I came away which required the labor of one man to turn it and with which one man will clean ten times as much cotton as he can in any other way before known and also cleanse it much better than in the usual mode.
Page 163 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...