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The Best Writings of Ulysses S. Grant /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Ulysses S. Grant before the Civil War: "I have been quite unfortunate lately"
- The national conflict begins: "We are now in the midst of trying times"
- Grant's biggest mistake: "They are a curse to the army"
- Grant captures Vicksburg: "White flags will be displayed along your lines"
- Victories make Grant commanding general: "An army never was whipped as badly as Bragg was"
- The institution of never-ending war: "It is proposed to have co-operative action of all the armies"
- Lincoln is reelected: "Congratulate the president"
- Grant receives Lee's surrender: "The hopelessness of further resistance"
- Postwar commanding general: "I dread going back to washington"
- The military hero is nominated for president: "Let us have peace"
- Grant becomes president: "The choice has fallen upon me"
- Grant's first term: "An occupation uncongenial to me"
- The Panic of 1873 and other second-term problems: "Matters are worse in New York than yesterday"
- The Grants tour the world: "I have now been absent from home nearly two years"
- A charlatan bankrupts the ex-president: "Financially, the Grant family is ruined"
- Grant's death from cancer: "I am unable to converse even in a whisper."