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As early as May , 1861 , he sent to President Lincoln , through Governor Yates , a suggestion that the main attack on the Confederacy should be along the line of the Mississippi . This piece of ordinary common sense did not find much ...
As early as May , 1861 , he sent to President Lincoln , through Governor Yates , a suggestion that the main attack on the Confederacy should be along the line of the Mississippi . This piece of ordinary common sense did not find much ...
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The smooth yellow Mississippi comes out of the West , sweeps in mighty grandeur before the town , and flows toward the West again . Batteries placed on this elevation commanded the river for miles in each direction when the Confederates ...
The smooth yellow Mississippi comes out of the West , sweeps in mighty grandeur before the town , and flows toward the West again . Batteries placed on this elevation commanded the river for miles in each direction when the Confederates ...
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3 About a hundred miles north of Vicksburg a tributary of the Yazoo runs close to the Mississippi . In former times the two rivers were connected by a waterway called Yazoo Pass , but the pass had been closed by a levee , as the great ...
3 About a hundred miles north of Vicksburg a tributary of the Yazoo runs close to the Mississippi . In former times the two rivers were connected by a waterway called Yazoo Pass , but the pass had been closed by a levee , as the great ...
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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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