A Popular and Authentic Life of Ulysses S. GrantR.W. Carroll & Company, 1868 - 377 pages |
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Page 37
... strong force , which rendered it necessary to advance with caution . This was done , and when the head of the battalion was within short musket - range of the bar- rier , Lieutenant Grant , Fourth Infantry , and Captain Brooks , Second ...
... strong force , which rendered it necessary to advance with caution . This was done , and when the head of the battalion was within short musket - range of the bar- rier , Lieutenant Grant , Fourth Infantry , and Captain Brooks , Second ...
Page 54
... strong , be able to strike the rear of any military force sent through the interior . If Cairo were held by the enemy , where would be our steam- boat transportation of supplies , which proved of such inestimable service during the war ...
... strong , be able to strike the rear of any military force sent through the interior . If Cairo were held by the enemy , where would be our steam- boat transportation of supplies , which proved of such inestimable service during the war ...
Page 55
... strong force from Mis- souri.and Kentucky to have moved on Cairo , in the summer of 1861 , it would have been taken , and the loss to the Government would have been incalcula- ble . It seemed to me , then , very singular that the rebel ...
... strong force from Mis- souri.and Kentucky to have moved on Cairo , in the summer of 1861 , it would have been taken , and the loss to the Government would have been incalcula- ble . It seemed to me , then , very singular that the rebel ...
Page 65
... strong posi- tions . Bowling Green , Kentucky , might have been regarded as an advanced post - a tete - de - pont - to Nashville , if it had not been essential to the defense of Columbus . If the reader will take a map and examine it ...
... strong posi- tions . Bowling Green , Kentucky , might have been regarded as an advanced post - a tete - de - pont - to Nashville , if it had not been essential to the defense of Columbus . If the reader will take a map and examine it ...
Page 66
... strong defensive line ; in fact , by far the strongest between the Ohio River and the Atlantic or the Gulf . In ten months of the early part of the war that line was never penetrated till the events occurred which I am about to relate ...
... strong defensive line ; in fact , by far the strongest between the Ohio River and the Atlantic or the Gulf . In ten months of the early part of the war that line was never penetrated till the events occurred which I am about to relate ...
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Page 28 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 102 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 313 - mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger was gray; By the flash of his eye, and the red nostril's play, He seemed to the whole great army to say, "I have brought you Sheridan all the way From Winchester down to save the day!
Page 290 - By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.
Page 218 - DEAR GENERAL : I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country.
Page 290 - Stay, stay with us, — rest, thou art weary and worn ; And fain was their war-broken soldier to stay ; — But sorrow returned with the dawning of morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.
Page 269 - 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 add, that with what I here speak for the nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence.
Page 334 - President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. " He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime, you are to press to the utmost your military advantages.
Page 107 - I have had no communication with General Grant for more than a week. He left his command without my authority, and went to Nashville. His army seems to be as much demoralized by the victory of Fort Donelson as was that of the Potomac by the defeat of Bull Run.
Page 95 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.