 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1885 - 606 pages
...never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable. Inquiries at the village of Florida divulged the fact that Colonel Harris, learning of my intended... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1886 - 550 pages
...never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. There are many testimonies to the fact that Grant was wonderfully cool under fire. He would write a... | |
 | 1887 - 886 pages
...the question I had never taken before, but I never forgot it afterwards. I never forgot that an enemy had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable." But already he inspired confidence. Shortly after his return from the Salt River, the President asked... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1888 - 216 pages
...the question I had never taken before, but I never forgot it afterwards. I never forgot that an enemy had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable." But already he inspired confidence. Shortly after his return from the Salt River, the President asked... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1892 - 612 pages
...never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable. Inquiries at the village of Florida divulged the fact that Colonel Harris, learning of my intended... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1895 - 702 pages
...never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his." In November, 1861, he attacked a Confederate camp at Belmont ; a battle ensued which was without result,... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1895 - 686 pages
...never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his." In November, 1861, he attacked a Confederate camp at Belmont ; a battle ensued which was without result,... | |
 | William Conant Church - 1897 - 586 pages
...the close of the war, " he tells us, " I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable." Yet Grant was by no means ignorant of the historical records of war. Indeed, " in addition to his great... | |
 | 1898 - 1190 pages
...never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable. Harris had learned of Grant's preparations to attack him and had retreated before the latter's march... | |
 | Walter Allen - 1901 - 184 pages
...never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had [to fear] his." On August 7 lie was appointed by the President a brigadier-general of volunteers, upon... | |
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... Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before ; but it was one I never forgot afterwards. From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting... 
