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On March 27 , 1847 , the town surrendered after Scott had battered his way through the walls . Despite the fierce resolutions hardly anybody died in the last ditch , though a few misguided patriots fired from second - story windows ...
On March 27 , 1847 , the town surrendered after Scott had battered his way through the walls . Despite the fierce resolutions hardly anybody died in the last ditch , though a few misguided patriots fired from second - story windows ...
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Why not march down through the state to Savannah and connect there with the Union blockading fleet ? He would have to abandon his communications with the North , but what difference would that make ? He could live on the country .
Why not march down through the state to Savannah and connect there with the Union blockading fleet ? He would have to abandon his communications with the North , but what difference would that make ? He could live on the country .
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On the twenty - seventh of March he was taken for a carriage drive in Central Park . It was a clear , sunny day . The park was full of children , and there was the sheen of serene lakes and of buds bursting into bloom .
On the twenty - seventh of March he was taken for a carriage drive in Central Park . It was a clear , sunny day . The park was full of children , and there was the sheen of serene lakes and of buds bursting into bloom .
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Meet General Grant |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1946 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Oct 2006 |
| ISBN | 1404749136, 9781404749139 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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