The Life of General U.S. Grant: His Early Life, Military Achievements, and History of His Civil Administration, His Sickness and Death, Together with His Tour Around the WorldL. T. Remlap Loomis National Library Association, 1885 - 772 pages Compilation of a wide variety of original source material accompanied by a significant amount of Remlap's text, which provides context and flow. |
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... leaving West Point Grant entered the United States army as a brevet second lieutenant in the Fourth Infantry -the date at which this brevet rank was awarded to him was that of the succeeding day to his graduation , viz .: July 1 , 1843 ...
... leaving West Point Grant entered the United States army as a brevet second lieutenant in the Fourth Infantry -the date at which this brevet rank was awarded to him was that of the succeeding day to his graduation , viz .: July 1 , 1843 ...
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... leaving New Carthage an island . They were obliged to make a detour around the Bayou Vidal to Per- kins ' plantation , twelve miles below , and distant thirty - five miles from Milliken's Bend . Owing to the wet and spongy condition of ...
... leaving New Carthage an island . They were obliged to make a detour around the Bayou Vidal to Per- kins ' plantation , twelve miles below , and distant thirty - five miles from Milliken's Bend . Owing to the wet and spongy condition of ...
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... leaving the city in the hands of the Union forces , abandoning eighteen guns and 286 prisoners in the hands of the Federals . Leaving Sherman to garrison Jackson , General Grant ordered McPherson to march to Bolton on the direct road to ...
... leaving the city in the hands of the Union forces , abandoning eighteen guns and 286 prisoners in the hands of the Federals . Leaving Sherman to garrison Jackson , General Grant ordered McPherson to march to Bolton on the direct road to ...
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... leave open . *** If we continue to gaze listlessly from the bold knobs of Missionary Ridge upon the comfortable barracks of the Federals below , then may we tremble for the next campaign ; for , as sure as there is any surety in the ...
... leave open . *** If we continue to gaze listlessly from the bold knobs of Missionary Ridge upon the comfortable barracks of the Federals below , then may we tremble for the next campaign ; for , as sure as there is any surety in the ...
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... leaving only the necessary force to defend fortifications on the right and center , and a movable column of one division in readiness to move wherever ordered . This division should show itself as threateningly as possible , on the most ...
... leaving only the necessary force to defend fortifications on the right and center , and a movable column of one division in readiness to move wherever ordered . This division should show itself as threateningly as possible , on the most ...
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Page 180 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage.
Page 177 - 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 180 - Head-Quarters, Army of Northern Virginia, April 9, 1865. " GENERAL : I 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 179 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit : Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
Page 165 - Thomas into the count, as it should be taken, it is indeed a great success. Not only does it afford the obvious and immediate military advantages ; but in showing to the world that your army could be divided, putting the stronger part to an important new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole, — Hood's army, — it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next?
Page 137 - We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners in battle, while he has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.
Page 123 - I have been eminently successful in this war, in at least gaining the confidence of the public, no one feels more than I how much of this success is due to the energy, .skill, and the harmonious putting forth of that energy and skill, of those whom it has been my good fortune to have occupying subordinate positions under me.
Page 84 - Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg, will always challenge the respect of an adversary, and I can assure you, will be treated with all the respect due them as prisoners of. war. I do not favor the proposition of appointing commissioners to arrange terms of capitulation, because I have no other terms than those indicated above.
Page 114 - Commanding thanks you collectively and individually. The loyal people of the United States thank and bless you. Their hopes and prayers for your success against this unholy rebellion are with you daily. Their faith in you will not be in vain. Their hopes will not be blasted. Their prayers to Almighty God will be answered. You will yet go to other fields of strife ; and, with the invincible bravery and unflinching loyalty to justice and right which have characterized you in the past, you will prove...