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Author: Horace Porter Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780265172520 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 626
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Excerpt from Campaigning With Grant HE object aimed at in this narrative is to recount the daily acts of General Grant in the field, to de scribe minutely his personal traits and habits, and to explain the motives which actuated him in important crises by giving his criticisms upon events in the lan guage employed by. Him at the time they took place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Horace Porter Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780265172520 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 626
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Excerpt from Campaigning With Grant HE object aimed at in this narrative is to recount the daily acts of General Grant in the field, to de scribe minutely his personal traits and habits, and to explain the motives which actuated him in important crises by giving his criticisms upon events in the lan guage employed by. Him at the time they took place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Julian K. Larke Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781440092015 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 612
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Excerpt from General Grant and His Campaigns IT is fitting that the American people should know more of General Grant than is usually found in the ordinary histories of the times of his early days; of his training and characteristics, as he is another example of the man, ner in which our men Who have made their mark have risen to eminence from the ranks of the upright and well-to-do classes among the people. The aim, there fore, of the present volume is to give a sketch of his boy hood, including the preparation for the work in life that fell to his lot, by means of his education and training at West Point his services in the Mexican War, and, afterward, his experience as a subordinate officer on duty in Oregon and California. Then we see him resigning from the army and entering upon the life of a farmer he was honest, truthful, indefatigable, always at work, but he did not possess the knack of making money, says one who knew him well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Henry Coppée Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484833288 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 568
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Excerpt from Grant and His Campaigns: A Military Biography I have said thus much by way of self-vindication, should any reader - especially some gallant soldier - fail to find as many battle pictures, and as much of the movements of the lesser organizations, as he had expected. I could not neglect the philosophy of Grant's history, and there was not space for both. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: James S. Brisbin Publisher: ISBN: 9781332435999 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 420
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Excerpt from The Campaign Lives of Ulysses S. Grant, and Schuyler Colfax An author's first book must necessarily be defective, especially if that hook he written about events in which hundreds of thousands of persons were actors. In this volume I Lave aimed to do justice only to two characters. If, therefore, soldiers and statesmen, who may chance to read it, do not find their own names recorded, or a full account of the events with which they were connected given, let them remember I am not writing of them and of the events, only so far as they relate to Grant and Colfax. It is always difficult to write of a man who is still living, for, whether it be to censure or praise him, the writer must feel more or less embarrassed. Remembering Lossing's motto, that "he who writes the truth should write all of it," I have endeavored to gather, from every possible source, such information concerning the illustrious General Grant as would be of interest to the reader; and I desire, in advance, to give credit to Mr, Larke, Abbott, Badeau, Reid, General Rawlins, and others, for such matter as I have used from their hooks, letters, and papers. A number of officers, who served with General Grant in Mexico and Oregon, and several of his personal friends, have been good enough to write me much that is interesting; and to them, one and all, I beg leave, in this public manner, to return my sincere thanks. A careful investigation of all the facts connected with the life of General Grant will convince any impartial person that he is really a great man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Chris Mackowski Publisher: Savas Beatie ISBN: 1611211611 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 193
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The remarkable story of how one of America’s greatest military heroes became a literary legend. The former general in chief of the Union armies during the Civil War . . . the two-term president of the United States . . . the beloved ambassador of American goodwill around the globe . . . the respected New York financier—Ulysses S. Grant—was dying. The hardscrabble man who regularly smoked twenty cigars a day had developed terminal throat cancer. Thus began Grant’s final battle—a race against his own failing health to complete his personal memoirs in an attempt to secure his family’s financial security. But the project evolved into something far more: an effort to secure the very meaning of the Civil War itself and how it would be remembered. In this maelstrom of woe, Grant refused to surrender. Putting pen to paper, the hero of Appomattox embarked on his final campaign: an effort to write his memoirs before he died. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant would cement his place as not only one of America’s greatest heroes but also as one of its most sublime literary voices. Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have recounted Grant’s battlefield exploits as historians at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, and Mackowski, as an academic, has studied Grant’s literary career. Their familiarity with the former president as a general and as a writer bring Grant’s Last Battle to life with new insight, told with the engaging prose that has become the hallmark of the Emerging Civil War Series.
Author: Charles Francis Atkinson Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780331301304 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 518
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Excerpt from Grant's Campaigns of 1864 and 1865: The Wilderness and Cold Harbor (May 3-June 3, 1864) As to the use made of these, I may say that I have consulted principally the field orders and correspondence of the Union commanders; secondly, Humphreys' work; thirdly, the official reports; and, for the rest, the additional evidence contained in the other volumes in the above list. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: P. C. Headley Publisher: ISBN: 9781330859988 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 780
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Excerpt from The Life and Campaigns of General U. S, Grant The personal history of a Nation's benefactor will always interest the people whom he has signally served. General Grant rose from humble life to the highest position of military power, with no effort to attain it beyond unassuming and unwearied devotion to the Republic, during the period of its greatest peril and trial. Of such a man, the humblest citizen desires to know every detail of his career from his boyhood to his later and more eventful years. In this volume it has been the endeavor of the author to gratify that natural curiosity, by giving well-authenticated incidents of his life. For much information the author is indebted to family friends of General Grant; for others, to the writings of Carleton, Richardson, Nichols, and other historians of the war. It is believed, that what is written is historically correct; indeed, there is no better test than the able and succinct reports of the great captains, - Grant, Sherman, Meade, and Sheridan, - which are included in this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Frank P Varney Publisher: Savas Beatie ISBN: 1611215544 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 303
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General Ulysses S. Grant is best remembered today as a war-winning general, and he certainly deserves credit for his efforts on behalf of the Union. But has he received too much credit at the expense of other men? Have others who fought the war with him suffered unfairly at his hands? General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War explores these issues. Professor Frank P. Varney examines Grants relationship with three noted Civil War generals: the brash and uncompromising Fighting Joe Hooker; George H. Thomas, the stellar commander who earned the sobriquet Rock of Chickamauga; and Gouverneur Kemble Warren, who served honorably and well in every major action of the Army of the Potomac before being relieved less than two weeks before Appomattox, and only after he had played a prominent part in the major Union victory at Five Forks. In his earlier book General Grant and the Rewriting of History, Dr. Varney studied the tempestuous relationship between Grant and Union General William S. Rosecrans. During the war, Rosecrans was considered by many of his contemporaries to be on par with Grant himself; today, he is largely forgotten. Rosecranss star dimmed, argues Varney, because Grant orchestrated the effort. Unbeknownst to most students of the war, Grant used his official reports, interviews with the press, and his memoirs to influence how future generations would remember the war and his part in it. Aided greatly by his two terms as president, by the clarity and eloquence of his memoirs, and in particular by the dramatic backdrop against which those memoirs were written, our historical memory has been influenced to a degree greater than many realize. It is beyond time to return to the original sourcesthe letters, journals, reports, and memoirs of other witnesses and the transcripts of courts-martial to examine Grants story from a fresh perspective. The results are enlightening and more than a little disturbing.
Author: William A. Crafts Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330724729 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 184
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Excerpt from Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil The events related' in the following life OF general grant have been derived from authentic sources; and it has been the writer's aim to give a plain and truthful narrative, like the subject him self, -without resorting to invention, high coloring, or rhetorical exaggeration, to add to the interest which attaches to one who occupies so eminent a position. It has also been the writer's purpose, avoiding minute details, controversy, and lengthy extracts from official reports, to offer a sufficiently brief and a popular life OF grant, to meet the wants of numerous readers throughout the country who do not desire the larger and more costly works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Horace Porter
Author: Horace Porter
Author: Julian K. Larke
Author: Henry Coppée
Author: Augustus Washington Alexander
Author: James S. Brisbin
Author: Chris Mackowski
Author: Charles Francis Atkinson
Author: P. C. Headley
Author: Frank P Varney
Author: William A. Crafts