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The life of General Ulysses S. Grant. Containing a brief but faithful narrative of those military and diplomatic achievements which have entitled him to the confidence and gratitude of his countrymen (14597406750)

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Title: The life of General Ulysses S. Grant. Containing a brief but faithful narrative of those military and diplomatic achievements which have entitled him to the confidence and gratitude of his countrymen

Year: 1868 (1860s)

Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877

Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Publisher: Boston, B.B. Russell Cincinnati, White, Corbin, Bouvé, & co. (etc., etc.)

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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THE PURSUIT. 193 considered unassailable, provisions and ordnance storesfor a vast army. In the dismay which their sudden routcreated, they, in the darkness of the night, threw asmany of these stores as possible upon their teams, andhurried them off. But as the dawn approached, andthey heard the tramp of our advancing columns, theyapplied the torch to every thing that would burn, and fledwith the utmost precipitation. As a brigade of General Shermans command, underJefferson C. Davis, came up, the depot was found inflames. There were immense piles of burning corn-mealand bacon. Barrels and boxes were scattered around inthe wildest confusion. Pontoon-boats, gun-carriages,wagons, were piled together in smouldering ruin. Foodof all kinds — tea, coffee, sugar, flour, molasses — wasmingled with cartridge-boxes, broken muskets, and smallarms of every kind, — strewing the ground. There wereboxes of ammunition here and there, — some broken open,with sparks flying all around them. There

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