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I have commissioned McClernand to raise an army and capture Vicksburg by way of the Mississippi . ” And Porter added that he did not like McClernand , even if Lincoln did . Grant reflected a moment . If he could get to Vicksburg ahead ...
I have commissioned McClernand to raise an army and capture Vicksburg by way of the Mississippi . ” And Porter added that he did not like McClernand , even if Lincoln did . Grant reflected a moment . If he could get to Vicksburg ahead ...
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The houses of Vicksburg would then be visible on the sky - line , across the river , but the place could not be reached , and the army would be as useless as if it were a hundred miles away . Perhaps I have not yet made clear the nature ...
The houses of Vicksburg would then be visible on the sky - line , across the river , but the place could not be reached , and the army would be as useless as if it were a hundred miles away . Perhaps I have not yet made clear the nature ...
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If Destiny ever brought the man and the hour together it was when Grant stood before Vicksburg . § 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 ...
If Destiny ever brought the man and the hour together it was when Grant stood before Vicksburg . § 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 ...
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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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