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Grant Takes a Chance 217 Grant either disobeyed orders or did not receive this message in time — I do not know which — for he was soon on his way toward Fort Donelson . He did not take and destroy it on the 8th ; the roads were too deep ...
Grant Takes a Chance 217 Grant either disobeyed orders or did not receive this message in time — I do not know which — for he was soon on his way toward Fort Donelson . He did not take and destroy it on the 8th ; the roads were too deep ...
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Of course , Grant intended to take full command himself as soon as he reached Chattanooga . The food supply was the most pressing problem — but it was one that was already in the course of solution when Grant arrived .
Of course , Grant intended to take full command himself as soon as he reached Chattanooga . The food supply was the most pressing problem — but it was one that was already in the course of solution when Grant arrived .
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At one of the cabinet meetings soon after Grant became President he remarked that the navy department wanted Samana Bay , on the east coast of San Domingo , as a coaling station , and that he intended to send Colonel Babcock down to San ...
At one of the cabinet meetings soon after Grant became President he remarked that the navy department wanted Samana Bay , on the east coast of San Domingo , as a coaling station , and that he intended to send Colonel Babcock down to San ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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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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