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In the bright glow of cotton - made fortunes the Southern idea of emancipating the negro slowly faded to a shadow . But what of the North ? Long before the Revolution it had been found that negroes were not worth their keep on Northern ...
In the bright glow of cotton - made fortunes the Southern idea of emancipating the negro slowly faded to a shadow . But what of the North ? Long before the Revolution it had been found that negroes were not worth their keep on Northern ...
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HE connection between the Southern people and Grant's career is so close that one thinks of it as a kind of mystic fatalism . He married a Southern woman ; a Louisiana general - Zachary Taylor — was his military ideal ; and he became ...
HE connection between the Southern people and Grant's career is so close that one thinks of it as a kind of mystic fatalism . He married a Southern woman ; a Louisiana general - Zachary Taylor — was his military ideal ; and he became ...
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Though he was censured bitterly by his Southern contemporaries , history will deal more kindly with him , for his task was really one of superhuman size . In April , 1861 , after the fall of Fort Sumter , Davis called for 100,000 ...
Though he was censured bitterly by his Southern contemporaries , history will deal more kindly with him , for his task was really one of superhuman size . In April , 1861 , after the fall of Fort Sumter , Davis called for 100,000 ...
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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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