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The regiment , under the inspiration of Grant's energy , struggled to its feet . The sick men and the soldiers ' wives were put on mules , while the rest of the regiment started out on foot . There were children , too , in the ...
The regiment , under the inspiration of Grant's energy , struggled to its feet . The sick men and the soldiers ' wives were put on mules , while the rest of the regiment started out on foot . There were children , too , in the ...
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About the middle of May he was sent by the governor to muster in a new regiment at Mattoon — a small town near the center of the state . This regiment — the Twenty - first Illinois Volunteers — had been handled so incompetently that it ...
About the middle of May he was sent by the governor to muster in a new regiment at Mattoon — a small town near the center of the state . This regiment — the Twenty - first Illinois Volunteers — had been handled so incompetently that it ...
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Within a week he had scraped off the regiment's hard crust , and found that there was nothing underneath but a lot of good - natured farm youths , full of high spirits and a little rough . He began to enforce discipline , and camp life ...
Within a week he had scraped off the regiment's hard crust , and found that there was nothing underneath but a lot of good - natured farm youths , full of high spirits and a little rough . He began to enforce discipline , and camp life ...
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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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