When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew... The Life of Ulysses S. Grant: General of the Armies of the United States - Page 137 by James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - 1868 - 424 pages Full view -
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