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 159
... North was behind John Brown , that the abolitionists carried the North with them ; and that an immense servile insurrec- tion had been narrowly averted . But this was not so . There was nobody in the Brown plot except himself and ...
... North was behind John Brown , that the abolitionists carried the North with them ; and that an immense servile insurrec- tion had been narrowly averted . But this was not so . There was nobody in the Brown plot except himself and ...
Page 171
... North in the face of actual secession . The abolitionists , or most of them , thought that nothing at all ought to ... North would not fight , he said , and the only result of a war would be the conquest of the North by the South ...
... North in the face of actual secession . The abolitionists , or most of them , thought that nothing at all ought to ... North would not fight , he said , and the only result of a war would be the conquest of the North by the South ...
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... North were precisely like themselves ; that a Yankee was merely a Southerner who lives in a colder climate ; and that it was absurd to blame the decent people of the North for the brutali- ties of a few thousand men in Sherman's army ...
... North were precisely like themselves ; that a Yankee was merely a Southerner who lives in a colder climate ; and that it was absurd to blame the decent people of the North for the brutali- ties of a few thousand men in Sherman's army ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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