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After Appomattox , which was Grant's finest hour , he became a folk hero . Woodward's treatment of the unfolding of Reconstruction policy during Andrew Johnson's unhappy administration offers historical judgments that later research has ...
After Appomattox , which was Grant's finest hour , he became a folk hero . Woodward's treatment of the unfolding of Reconstruction policy during Andrew Johnson's unhappy administration offers historical judgments that later research has ...
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Cotton - growing , which became the backbone of the slave system in the half - century that preceded the Civil War , was a negligible industry in the 1790's . Before the invention of the cotton gin the task of separating one pound of ...
Cotton - growing , which became the backbone of the slave system in the half - century that preceded the Civil War , was a negligible industry in the 1790's . Before the invention of the cotton gin the task of separating one pound of ...
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On the verge of heartbreak with homesickness and hatred of the army , his inner life slowly became a gray emptiness , like a rugged landscape covered with fog . Glibness of speech , combined with a sharp introspective egotism , might ...
On the verge of heartbreak with homesickness and hatred of the army , his inner life slowly became a gray emptiness , like a rugged landscape covered with fog . Glibness of speech , combined with a sharp introspective egotism , might ...
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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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