Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Thomas” in chapter 5, page 278 of Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3:
... to strike that blow would have come to naught.
No general can count on success when those to whom he entrusts the execution of his plans take it upon themselves to determine that he is wrong.
If Thomas 's own lieutenants had acted towards him as he did to
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