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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative | 85 | 25 | Browse | Search |
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 79 | 79 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 52 | 16 | Browse | Search |
Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant | 52 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 41 | 25 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 39 | 27 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 34 | 10 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1864., [Electronic resource] | 34 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 32 | 18 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1862., [Electronic resource] | 32 | 10 | Browse | Search |
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none of our public men have a story so strange as this.
It is stranger than Lincoln's. It is very much the strangest of them all. We have been too near the man and his time to see them clear through personal, political, and military feelings, mostly violent.
All the people are not dead yet. Nearly all the writers have a nt by some grown — up writers.
His own words give the unconscious explanation: I feel as sure of taking Richmond as I do of dying.
Not McClellan, not Meade, not Lincoln himself, not any one at all, had ever been able to feel as sure as that.
This utter certainty of the Union's success burned in Grant like a central fire, and, with all his limitations, made his will a great natural force which gravitated simply and irresistibly to its end. Lincoln; beginning to feel it from afar, answered the grave complaints that rose after the carnage of Shiloh: I can't spare this man: he fights.
And presently, during the impatient days of Vicksburg failures, he insists
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