Military and Civil Life of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ...McCurdy, 1885 - 734 pages |
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... close friends — Anecdotes — A graphic chapter , CHAPTER XXVII . THE DYING HERO . 568 Misfortune and disease - Nature of the disease - Mental strain - Financial ruin- At death's door - A nation's sympathy - Touching scenes - Rally - At ...
... close friends — Anecdotes — A graphic chapter , CHAPTER XXVII . THE DYING HERO . 568 Misfortune and disease - Nature of the disease - Mental strain - Financial ruin- At death's door - A nation's sympathy - Touching scenes - Rally - At ...
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... close of the Mexican War he was but twenty - five years of age , yet he had served in the active campaigns of two years , first under the resolute Taylor from Corpus Christi to Monterey , and then under the more sagacious Scott from ...
... close of the Mexican War he was but twenty - five years of age , yet he had served in the active campaigns of two years , first under the resolute Taylor from Corpus Christi to Monterey , and then under the more sagacious Scott from ...
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... close range on the Confederate works with six gunboats , four of which were ironclad . Their batteries re- plied with telling effect . Still the ironclads advanced . They came within four hundred yards , and the action was close and hot ...
... close range on the Confederate works with six gunboats , four of which were ironclad . Their batteries re- plied with telling effect . Still the ironclads advanced . They came within four hundred yards , and the action was close and hot ...
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... close of a conflict , ready to begin the next day . Such fighting must be interminable . Somebody must be destroyed . The enemy must be spoiled , his means of warfare taken from him . I must make an exception in favor of that young man ...
... close of a conflict , ready to begin the next day . Such fighting must be interminable . Somebody must be destroyed . The enemy must be spoiled , his means of warfare taken from him . I must make an exception in favor of that young man ...
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... close con- centration . It would not do for him to repeat the error of the Confederates at Donelson . Ratifying the selection of Pitts- burg Landing by Smith , he ordered Smith's and McClernand's divisions thither from Savannah . Lewis ...
... close con- centration . It would not do for him to repeat the error of the Confederates at Donelson . Ratifying the selection of Pitts- burg Landing by Smith , he ordered Smith's and McClernand's divisions thither from Savannah . Lewis ...
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amid Appomattox Appomattox Court House April artillery assault attack batteries battle battle of Shiloh Bragg Brig brigade Burkesville Burnside campaign captured cavalry centre Chattanooga Chickamauga City Point Cold Harbor command Confederate Congress Corinth corps Court House crossed division Donelson enemy enemy's entire entrenchments Federal army fighting fire Five Forks flank force fortified friends front grand Grand Gulf Grant guns Halleck Hancock honor hundred infantry Johnston knew land Lee's Lewis Wallace lines Longstreet loss McClernand Meade ment miles military Missionary Ridge Mississippi morning move movement Nashville nation never night officers operations ordered party peace Petersburg position President prisoners pushed railroad Rapidan reached rear received regiments reinforcements retreat Richmond Ridge river road Rosecrans sent Sheridan Sherman side Smith soldier spirit strong success surrender Tennessee Thomas thousand tion troops turned Valley Vicksburg victory visited Warren Washington West word
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Page 668 - He is gone who seem'd so great. Gone; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. Speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him. God accept him, Christ receive him.
Page 383 - 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 160 - I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish...
Page 387 - General, that I am equally anxious for peace with yourself, and the whole North entertains the same feeling. The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed. Seriously hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe myself, etc. US GRANT, Lieutenant-General. GENERAL RE LEE.
Page 394 - HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9, 1865. " GENERAL: "I have received your letter of this date containing the terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, as proposed by you. As they are substantially the -same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. RE LEE, General."
Page 460 - ... the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment in coin or its equivalent of all the obligations of the United States...
Page 389 - GENERAL : — I received your note of this morning on the picketline, whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposition of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army. I now request an interview in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose.
Page 218 - I knew, wherever I was, that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would help me out, if alive.
Page 204 - GRANT: Understanding that your lodgment at Chattanooga and Knoxville is now secure, I wish to tender you, and all under your command, my more than thanks — my profoundest gratitude for the skill, courage, and perseverance with which you and they, over so great difficulties, have effected that important object. God bless you all ! A.
Page 393 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them.