Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Grant” in chapter 2, page 66 of Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3:
...conceive his peculiar march, destroying Atlanta as Cortez burnt his ships, and abandoning the railroad as Grant did the Mississippi at Vicksburg; but Grant had conceived another march much earlier.
Grant first proposed that Sherman should move to Savannah whenever Canby was ready to meet him; but—and this is the greatest and most audacious part of Sherman's
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