General U. S. Grant: His Early Life and Military Career, with a Breif Account of His Presidential Administration and Tour Around the WorldW. J. Johnston, 1879 - 512 páginas |
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... smoking - Correspondence with General Polk - Victory at Fredericktown - Belmont - Bra- very of his troops - Letter to his father - His appreciation of his ommand - Care for the wounded ... 45 49 PAGE CHAPTER VII . - DISTRICT OF CAIRO . -
... smoking - Correspondence with General Polk - Victory at Fredericktown - Belmont - Bra- very of his troops - Letter to his father - His appreciation of his ommand - Care for the wounded ... 45 49 PAGE CHAPTER VII . - DISTRICT OF CAIRO . -
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... letter of thanks . - His joke upon Grant's whiskey - Port Hudson - Its fall necessitated by the capitulation of Vicksburg ..... 281 290 302 CHAPTER XLII . - THE PURSUIT OF JOHNSTON . - SECOND CAPTURE OF THE CITY OF JACKSON . General ...
... letter of thanks . - His joke upon Grant's whiskey - Port Hudson - Its fall necessitated by the capitulation of Vicksburg ..... 281 290 302 CHAPTER XLII . - THE PURSUIT OF JOHNSTON . - SECOND CAPTURE OF THE CITY OF JACKSON . General ...
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... letter of introduction to a cadet , who told him all this , and put him on his guard . In the course of the first night , one of the cadets , dressed as an officer , entered the room where Ulysses and his chum were sleeping , and told ...
... letter of introduction to a cadet , who told him all this , and put him on his guard . In the course of the first night , one of the cadets , dressed as an officer , entered the room where Ulysses and his chum were sleeping , and told ...
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... letter of one who had taken some pains to trace the history of Grant's life while a resident in and near St. Louis : " General Grant occupied a little farm to the southwest of St. Louis , whence he was in the habit of cutting the wood ...
... letter of one who had taken some pains to trace the history of Grant's life while a resident in and near St. Louis : " General Grant occupied a little farm to the southwest of St. Louis , whence he was in the habit of cutting the wood ...
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... letter from General Grant to his father , written on the night of the 8th : " Day before yesterday I left Cairo with about three thousand men in five steamers , convoyed by two gunboats , and proceeded down the riv- er to within about ...
... letter from General Grant to his father , written on the night of the 8th : " Day before yesterday I left Cairo with about three thousand men in five steamers , convoyed by two gunboats , and proceeded down the riv- er to within about ...
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advance arms Army Correspondence arrived artillery assault attack batteries battle Bayou Bragg brevetted bridge brigade Brigadier-General Cairo camp campaign Captain captured cavalry Chattanooga Chickamauga Colonel column command Corinth Creek Department destroyed dispatch Division enemy enemy's engaged expedition field fight fire flag flank Fort Buckner Fort Donelson front garrison Grand Gulf gunboats guns HALLECK head-quarters heavy hill honor Hooker hundred Infantry Jackson Lieutenant Lookout Lookout Mountain Major-General U. S. GRANT McClernand Memphis ment miles military Mission Ridge Missionary Ridge Mississippi River morning mountain moved movement night o'clock officers Port Gibson Port Hudson position President prisoners Quartermaster railroad re-enforcements rear rebel forces reconnoissance regiment retreat rifle-pits road route sent Sherman side siege skirmishers soldiers soon surrender Tennessee Tennessee River Thirteenth Army Thirteenth Army Corps thousand tion Union troops Vicksburg victory West WEST TENNESSEE wounded Yazoo Yazoo River
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Página 304 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, 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...
Página 467 - The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly [exchanged], and each company or regimental commander to sign a like parole for the men of their commands.
Página 466 - April 7, 1865. 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.
Página 466 - A. M. to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious for peace with yourself, and the whole North entertains the same feeling.
Página 448 - With this high honor, devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you. I scarcely need to add, that, with what I here speak for the nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence.
Página 70 - SIR: The distribution of the forces under my command, incident to an unexpected change of commanders, and the overwhelming force under your command, compel me, notwithstanding the brilliant success of the Confederate arms yesterday, to accept the ungenerous and unchivalrous terms which you propose.
Página 284 - 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.
Página 284 - I have the honor to propose an armistice for hours, with the view to arranging terms for the capitulation of Vicksburg. To this end, if agreeable to you, I will appoint three commissioners. to meet a like number to be named by yourself, at such place and hour to-day as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save the further effusion of blood, which must otherwise be shed to a frightful extent, feeling myself fully able to maintain my position for a yet indefinite period.
Página 394 - And furious every charger neighed To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills with thunder riven Then rushed the steed to battle driven, And louder than the bolts of heaven Far flashed the red artillery.
Página 83 - You can but march to a decisive victory over agrarian mercenaries, sent to subjugate and despoil you of your liberties, property and honor. Remember the precious stake involved, remember the dependence of your mothers, your wives, your sisters, and your children, on the result. Remember the fair, broad, abounding lands, the happy homes that will be desolated by your defeat. The eyes and hopes of 8,000,000 people rest upon you.