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... Vicksburg would then be visible on the sky - line , across the river , but the place could not be reached , and the ... Vicksburg , on its tall hill , a solid vision in a melting cosmos . For months Grant endeavored to get to Vicksburg ...
... Vicksburg would then be visible on the sky - line , across the river , but the place could not be reached , and the ... Vicksburg , on its tall hill , a solid vision in a melting cosmos . For months Grant endeavored to get to Vicksburg ...
Page 289
... Vicksburg . 83 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 ...
... Vicksburg . 83 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 ...
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... Vicksburg- and the astonishing thing is the wide gap between his best and his worst . As we contemplate his operations before Vicksburg we cease for a time to think of him as a soldier of talent and energy . Such words are too pale . We ...
... Vicksburg- and the astonishing thing is the wide gap between his best and his worst . As we contemplate his operations before Vicksburg we cease for a time to think of him as a soldier of talent and energy . Such words are too pale . We ...
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MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FAntasies | 25 |
THE UNWILLING Soldier | 38 |
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