 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1885 - 686 páginas
...intelligent and who have very little interest in the contest in which they are called upon to take part. Our armies were composed of men who were able to read,...because they were thoroughly drilled and inured to hardships. There was nothing of particular importance occurred during the time these troops were in... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1885 - 668 páginas
...intelligent and who have very little interest in the contest in which they are called upon to take part. Our armies were composed of men who were able to read,...because they were thoroughly drilled and inured to hardships. TU, I remember one little incident which I will relate as an anecdote characteristic of... | |
 | 1886 - 456 páginas
...intelligent, and who have very little interest in the contest in which they are called upon to take part. Our armies were composed of men who were able to read,...to men who fought merely because they were brave, because they were thoroughly drilled and inured to hardships" (p. 531). As a statement of facts, there... | |
 | Charles Morris, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - 1902 - 436 páginas
...intelligent and who have very little interest in the contest in which they are called upon to take part. Our armies were composed of men who were able to read,...because they were thoroughly drilled and inured to hardships." The great reception given to the troops is thus described : "On the 18th of May orders... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - 1990 - 1228 páginas
...intelligent and who have very little interest in the contest in which they are called upon to take part. Our armies were composed of men who were able to read,...because they were thoroughly drilled and inured to hardships. There was nothing of particular importance occurred during the time these troops were in... | |
 | Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, Charles Reagan Wilson - 1998 - 442 páginas
...doubt that soldiers as well as intellectuals knew what the war was about, insisting afterwards that "our armies were composed of men who were able to read, men who knew what they were fighting for." James M. McPherson recently has noted that the same could be said for the Confederate soldiers. The... | |
 | Al Kaltman - 2000 - 356 páginas
...soldiers as ever trod the earth.. .because they not only worked like a machine but the machine thought." Our armies were composed of men who were able to read, men who knew what they were fighting for.. .and so necessarily must have been more than equal to men who fought merely because they were brave and... | |
 | Elizabeth D. Samet - 2004 - 300 páginas
...armies know very little about what they are fighting for, and care less." Sherman's army was instead "composed of men who were able to read, men who knew...emergency when the safety of the nation was involved" (USG, 638, 766). The enthusiasm of this portrait of a liberally obedient army suggests that if there... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - 2006 - 545 páginas
...intelligent and who have very little interest in the contest in which they are called upon to take part. Our armies were composed of men who were able to read,...because they were thoroughly drilled and inured to hardships. There was nothing of particular importance occurred during the time these troops were in... | |
 | Louise Barnett - 2006 - 582 páginas
...S. Grant said much the same thing when he described the soldiers who fought the Civil War as men who "could not be induced to serve as soldiers, except in an emergency when the safety of the nation was involved."19 While Custer's forces passed five restless weeks in Alexandria, enduring wretched weather,... | |
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... The armies of Europe are machines: the men are brave and the officers capable; but the majority of the soldiers in most of the nations of Europe are taken from a class of people who are not very intelligent and who have very little interest in the... 