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Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and CameroonsTravels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and CameroonsRelateth the various causes which impelled the author to embark upon the voyage. It was in 1893 that, for the first time in my life, I found myself in possession of five or six months which...
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10 Englishmen of the 19th CenturyTen Englishmen of the Nineteenth CenturyThe opening of the nineteenth century found England in the midst of a great foreign war, which for almost a generation absorbed the thought and energy of the nation, and postponed for the time the vital questions of economic...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 6Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 6.When news of Sherman being in possession of Savannah reached the North, distinguished statesmen and visitors began to pour in to see him. Among others who went was the Secretary of War, who seemed much pleased at...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 5Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 5.The Mattapony River is formed by the junction of the Mat, the Ta, the Po and the Ny rivers, the last being the northernmost of the four. It takes its rise about a mile south and a...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 4Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 4.The reply (to my telegram of October 16, 1863, from Cairo, announcing my arrival at that point) came on the morning of the 17th, directing me to proceed immediately to the Galt House, Louisville, where I would...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 1Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 1. "Man proposes and God disposes." There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Although frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs I had determined never to...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 3Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 3.My position at Corinth, with a nominal command and yet no command, became so unbearable that I asked permission of Halleck to remove my headquarters to Memphis. I had repeatedly asked, between the fall of Donelson and...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 6Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 6The headquarters of the military department to which I was assigned when relieved from duty at New Orleans was at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and on the 5th of September I started for that post. In...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 5Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 5The night of March 30 Merritt, with Devin's division and Davies's brigade, was camped on the Five Forks road about two miles in front of Dinwiddie, near J. Boisseau's. Crook, with Smith and Gregg's brigades,...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 2Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 2.CHAPTER XXIV. THE ARMY AT PITTSBURG LANDINGINJURED BY A FALLTHE CONFEDERATE ATTACK AT SHILOHTHE FIRST DAY'S FIGHT AT SHILOHGENERAL SHERMANCONDITION OF THE ARMYCLOSE OF THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHTTHE SECOND DAY'S FIGHTRETREAT AND DEFEAT OF THE CONFEDERATES. My...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 4Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 4ORGANIZING SCOUTSMISS REBECCA WRIGHTIMPORTANT INFORMATIONDECIDE TO MOVE ON NEWTOWNMEETING GENERAL GRANTORGANIZATION OF THE UNION ARMYOPENING OF THE BATTLE OF THE OPEQUONDEATH OF GENERAL RUSSELLA TURNING MOVEMENTA SUCCESSFUL CAVALRY CHARGEVICTORYTHREE LOYAL GIRLSAPPOINTED A BRIGADIER-GENERAL IN THE...
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Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume II., Part 4Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume II., Part 4 "all the world's stage, And all the men and women merely players," ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 5853 Author: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh) Release Date: Jun 1, 2004 Format: eBook...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 3Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 3By 9 o'clock on the morning of September 22 my command took up a position within the heavy line of intrenchments at Chattanooga, the greater part of which defenses had been thrown up since the...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 2Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 2The expedition referred to by General Halleck in his parting conversation was composed of the Second Michigan and Second Iowa regiments of cavalry, formed into a brigade under command of Colonel Washington L. Elliott, of...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 1Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 1 When, yielding to the solicitations of my friends, I finally decided to write these Memoirs, the greatest difficulty which confronted me was that of recounting my share in the many notable events of the...
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Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 2Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 2 4. MapExpedition to Steele's Bayou, Deer Creek, etc. And now that, in these notes, I have fairly reached the period of the civil war, which ravaged our country from 1861 to 1865an event involving...
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Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume II., Part 3Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume II., Part 3 On the 18th day of March, 1864, at Nashville, Tennessee, I relieved Lieutenant-General Grant in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, embracing the Departments of the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Arkansas, commanded...
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Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 1Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 1Another ten years have passed since I ventured to publish my Memoirs, and, being once more at leisure, I have revised them in the light of the many criticisms public and private. My habit has...
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Helping Himself Or, Grant Thornton's AmbitionHelping Himself; Or, Grant Thornton's Ambition I wish we were not so terribly poor, Grant, said Mrs. Thornton, in a discouraged tone. Is there anything new that makes you say so, mother? answered the boy of fifteen, whom she addressed. Nothing new, only the...
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Successful Exploration Through the Interior of AustraliaSuccessful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia - From Melbourne to the Gulf of CarpentariaI arrive in Australia. Join my two Sons at their Sheep-station. Return to Melbourne and Remove to Ballaarat. Visit to Mr. Skene. My son studies Surveying. His Rapid Proficiency. Appointed...
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