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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... sent to army headquarters . McClernand forgot all about this rule , and the correspondents wired his address to their newspapers . Sherman came dashing up to Grant with a St. Louis news- paper in his hand . " Just look at that ! " Grant ...
... sent to army headquarters . McClernand forgot all about this rule , and the correspondents wired his address to their newspapers . Sherman came dashing up to Grant with a St. Louis news- paper in his hand . " Just look at that ! " Grant ...
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... sent frantic hourly telegrams to Lee , who was still fifty miles away on the other side of Richmond , facing Grant's almost deserted trenches . Meanwhile the blue - clad soldiers continued to pour across the river . By the sixteenth ...
... sent frantic hourly telegrams to Lee , who was still fifty miles away on the other side of Richmond , facing Grant's almost deserted trenches . Meanwhile the blue - clad soldiers continued to pour across the river . By the sixteenth ...
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... sent his family away if he had thought Richmond could hold out . On Sunday , April 2nd , Lee sent a note to Davis ; it was so urgent that the message was delivered to him in church . Lee wrote that his line had been broken in three ...
... sent his family away if he had thought Richmond could hold out . On Sunday , April 2nd , Lee sent a note to Davis ; it was so urgent that the message was delivered to him in church . Lee wrote that his line had been broken in three ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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