Life and Reminiscences of General Wm. T. ShermanR. H. Woodward Company, 1891 - 479 pages This is a collection of thoughts and reminiscences on General Sherman from the most important and influential men of the day. Published the year of his death, it includes tributes from President Hayes, senators, high-profile priests and judges. |
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... duty at the North and finally to Com- pany F of his regiment , then under orders for Cali- fornia by way of Cape Horn . He reached Mon- terey Bay early in January , 1847 , after a voyage of 198 days from New York . The description of ...
... duty at the North and finally to Com- pany F of his regiment , then under orders for Cali- fornia by way of Cape Horn . He reached Mon- terey Bay early in January , 1847 , after a voyage of 198 days from New York . The description of ...
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... duty to go up , and see with our own eyes , that we might report to our Government . As yet we had no regular mail to any part of the United States , but mails had come to us at long intervals around Cape Horn , and one or two overland ...
... duty to go up , and see with our own eyes , that we might report to our Government . As yet we had no regular mail to any part of the United States , but mails had come to us at long intervals around Cape Horn , and one or two overland ...
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... duty with A. J. Smith's company , First Dragoons , Los Angeles . He remained several months at Los Angeles , and was then sent back to the United States with dispatches , traveling two thousand miles alone in preference to being en ...
... duty with A. J. Smith's company , First Dragoons , Los Angeles . He remained several months at Los Angeles , and was then sent back to the United States with dispatches , traveling two thousand miles alone in preference to being en ...
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... duty gave the young lieutenant a novel and most interesting experience and the brevet of captain , it kept him out of the fighting in Mexico and doubtless may have led to that withdrawal from military to civil life which he soon ...
... duty gave the young lieutenant a novel and most interesting experience and the brevet of captain , it kept him out of the fighting in Mexico and doubtless may have led to that withdrawal from military to civil life which he soon ...
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... duty and interest to be prepared for any situation that fortune or luck may offer . It is for this alone that I prepare , and not for pro- fessional practice . " No doubt even this slender acquaintance with the law was cherished by the ...
... duty and interest to be prepared for any situation that fortune or luck may offer . It is for this alone that I prepare , and not for pro- fessional practice . " No doubt even this slender acquaintance with the law was cherished by the ...
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