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All up and down the Mississippi , and around every port occupied by Union troops , Southern cotton speculators bought cotton at ten or twelve cents a pound and resold it for fifty cents a pound in gold to buyers for Northern mills .
All up and down the Mississippi , and around every port occupied by Union troops , Southern cotton speculators bought cotton at ten or twelve cents a pound and resold it for fifty cents a pound in gold to buyers for Northern mills .
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Porter was about to blow up his boats and try to escape when Sherman's troops arrived unexpectedly on the squashy banks of the creek . They drove off the Confederates , but it took three days to raise the trees from the stream so the ...
Porter was about to blow up his boats and try to escape when Sherman's troops arrived unexpectedly on the squashy banks of the creek . They drove off the Confederates , but it took three days to raise the trees from the stream so the ...
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Meade commanded 118,000 troops against Lee's 62,000 . Grant's plans went to pieces through the incompetency of General Butler . Butler's advance up the James threw Petersburg and Richmond into a wild state of alarm .
Meade commanded 118,000 troops against Lee's 62,000 . Grant's plans went to pieces through the incompetency of General Butler . Butler's advance up the James threw Petersburg and Richmond into a wild state of alarm .
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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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