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Besides his phantom promotion , Ulysses had brought back a few interesting trinkets , a fleet - footed gray horse , and a pleasant - faced , empty - headed peon servant named Gregory . He had also brought back the liquor habit .
Besides his phantom promotion , Ulysses had brought back a few interesting trinkets , a fleet - footed gray horse , and a pleasant - faced , empty - headed peon servant named Gregory . He had also brought back the liquor habit .
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Thereupon he swore out a complaint against Chandler , and had him brought into court . Chandler conducted his own case with wonderful vituperation . He declared that the officers were all idle loafers , doing nothing and living on the ...
Thereupon he swore out a complaint against Chandler , and had him brought into court . Chandler conducted his own case with wonderful vituperation . He declared that the officers were all idle loafers , doing nothing and living on the ...
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Long before the Civil War the downward pull of economic forces had brought them almost to the negro's level . The mechanics , carpenters , bricklayers and other working men of the towns were hardly any better off than the poor white ...
Long before the Civil War the downward pull of economic forces had brought them almost to the negro's level . The mechanics , carpenters , bricklayers and other working men of the towns were hardly any better off than the poor white ...
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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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