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The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 7
Volume 7 documents Grant’s winter of discontent. In late December, his Mississippi Central campaign, an overland drive toward Vicksburg, was fatally disrupted by Confederate cavalry raids. Forced to withdraw northward,…
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The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 8
Following the 1862–63 winter of discontent, Grant suddenly launched a brilliant campaign against Vicksburg which ultimately bisected the Confederacy. A long campaign, which had begun in November 1862,with an advance…
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The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 9
When Vicksburg fell, Washington promoted Grant to major general in the U.S. Army, which meant that Grant, already a major general of volunteers, would retain his rank after the war….
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The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
Written in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. Grant’s wife. First Lady…
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The Professor and the Madman
Now a major motion picture Mysterious (mistîe · ries), a. [f. L. mystérium Mysteryi + ous. Cf. F. mystérieux.] 1. Full of or fraught with mystery; wrapt in mystery; hidden…
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The Romanovs & Mr Gibbes
In 1908, Englishman Sydney Gibbes was appointed tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II, and over the next 10 years, he became deeply attached to the Imperial family—and they to…
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The Spencers of Amberson Avenue
This appealing memoir introduces the family of Charles Hart Spencer and his wife Mary Acheson: seven children born between 1884 and 1895. It also introduces a large Victorian house in…
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