The Life of Ulysses S. Grant: General United States ArmyS.S. Scranton & Company, 1868 - 533 pages |
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... steamer of contraband packages , under the pains and penalties of a court - martial , are too excruciating substitutes for genuine sport to be very seductive . Grant encounters the severe exactions of the West- Point course with no ...
... steamer of contraband packages , under the pains and penalties of a court - martial , are too excruciating substitutes for genuine sport to be very seductive . Grant encounters the severe exactions of the West- Point course with no ...
Page 92
... steamer . Amusements fail to divert him . Snorting mustangs haunt the plain , bounding beneath the rider as if each muscle were a separate prancer , and the entire horse the one " of Ukraine breed . " The man born on horseback scorns to ...
... steamer . Amusements fail to divert him . Snorting mustangs haunt the plain , bounding beneath the rider as if each muscle were a separate prancer , and the entire horse the one " of Ukraine breed . " The man born on horseback scorns to ...
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... steamer " Mound City " covered with blue - coats , the stars and stripes at the gaff , looming out of the fog which had settled on the Ohio . He abdicates immediately , and hurries off with his volunteers by railroad to the south . Gen ...
... steamer " Mound City " covered with blue - coats , the stars and stripes at the gaff , looming out of the fog which had settled on the Ohio . He abdicates immediately , and hurries off with his volunteers by railroad to the south . Gen ...
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... steamers ; while , from the opposite bank , Columbus the Titan overlooks the scene . The problem is a simple one . " I must search for an opening , " he says , " between those sloughs , and disperse that array in front of the camp ...
... steamers ; while , from the opposite bank , Columbus the Titan overlooks the scene . The problem is a simple one . " I must search for an opening , " he says , " between those sloughs , and disperse that array in front of the camp ...
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... steamers are plying between Columbus and Belmont , with their triple decks crowded with re - enforcing gray - jackets ; and he becomes anxious to return to Hunter's Point before the enemy imperti- nently obtrudes upon this grand ...
... steamers are plying between Columbus and Belmont , with their triple decks crowded with re - enforcing gray - jackets ; and he becomes anxious to return to Hunter's Point before the enemy imperti- nently obtrudes upon this grand ...
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abatis advance arms army corps artillery assailed assault attack Badeau bank batteries battle bayous bluffs brigade Buell Cairo camp campaign cannon capture cavalry centre Chapultepec Churubusco Columbus columns command Corinth Creek crest Cumberland defences despatches direction division Donelson enemy enemy's expedition field fire flank force Fort Donelson Fort Henry forthwith fortifications Fourth Infantry Frémont front garrison Grand Gulf Grant gunboats guns Halleck headquarters Henry hill hundred Hurlbut intrenchments Iuka land Lewis Wallace McClernand McPherson ment Mexican miles military Milliken's Bend Mississippi morning move movement o'clock officers operations Osterhaus Paducah Pemberton Port Gibson position railroad rank ravine re-enforcements reached rear rebel regiments retreat ridge river road Rosecrans Savanna says Scott Sherman Shiloh siege skirmishers Smith soldiers steamers storming party subordinate superior surrender Tennessee tête de pont thousand tion transports troops Vicksburg victory W. H. L. Wallace Warrenton wounded Yazoo
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Page 100 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 362 - You are now Washington's legitimate successor, and occupy a position of almost dangerous elevation; but if you can continue as heretofore to be yourself, simple, honest, and unpretending, you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends, and the homage of millions of human beings...
Page 480 - Answer quick, as I know we will not have the telegraph long. "WT SHERMAN, Major-General. "LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT." "CITY POINT, VIRGINIA, "October 11,1864 — 11.30 PM "Your dispatch of to-day received. If you are satisfied the trip to the sea-coast can be made, holding the line of the Tennessee River firmly, you may make it, destroying all the railroad south of Dalton or Chattanooga, as you think best.
Page 155 - It is hard to censure a successful general immediately after a victory, but I think he richly deserves it. I can get no returns, no reports, no information of any kind from him. Satisfied with his victory, he sits down and enjoys it without any regard to the future. I am worn out and tired with this neglect and inefficiency. CF Smith is almost the only officer equal to the emergency.
Page 363 - Atlantic slopes and Pacific shores will follow its destiny as sure as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk.
Page 510 - I am satisfied that the mass of the thinking men of the South accept the present situation of affairs in good faith. The questions which have heretofore divided the sentiments of the people of the two sections Slavery and State Rights, or the right of a State to secede from the Union they regard as having been settled forever by the highest tribunal - arms - that man can resort to.
Page 473 - Church, and will push forward to the front for the purpose of meeting you. Notice sent to me on this road where you wish the interview to take place, will meet me.
Page 470 - GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the army of Northern Virginia.
Page 505 - SOLDIERS OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, — By your patriotic devotion to your country in the hour of danger and alarm, your magnificent fighting, bravery, and endurance, you have maintained the supremacy of the Union and the Constitution...
Page 381 - I may here state that, commanding all the armies as I did, I tried, as far as possible, to leave General Meade in independent command of the Army of the Potomac. My instructions for that army were all through him, and were general in their nature, leaving all the details and the execution to him.