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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Helper did not care anything at all for the negro ; he was occupied wholly with the welfare of the white man , and he was convinced that white men , as a class , could not prosper as long as slavery continued to exist .
Helper did not care anything at all for the negro ; he was occupied wholly with the welfare of the white man , and he was convinced that white men , as a class , could not prosper as long as slavery continued to exist .
Page 153
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's decision , the Northern states , through their legislatures , continued to put obstacles in the way of slave - owning within their borders , and the abolitionists ( as well as the Southern Democrats ) ...
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's decision , the Northern states , through their legislatures , continued to put obstacles in the way of slave - owning within their borders , and the abolitionists ( as well as the Southern Democrats ) ...
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Meanwhile the blue - clad soldiers continued to pour across the river . By the sixteenth Grant had 48,000 men on the south side , while the Confederates in Petersburg numbered about 14,000 . Grant himself arrived on the sixteenth ...
Meanwhile the blue - clad soldiers continued to pour across the river . By the sixteenth Grant had 48,000 men on the south side , while the Confederates in Petersburg numbered about 14,000 . Grant himself arrived on the sixteenth ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 9 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
GRANT FALLS IN LOVE | 55 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Meet General Grant Star book |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | H. Liveright, 1928 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 6 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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