...PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT by U. S. Grant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication P... ...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...rris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I believe you are going to receive the appoint- ment.” “What appoi... ...try from what one would form going there now. I had been east to Wheeling, Virginia, and north to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, west to Louisville, an... ...ses, first built over the water in the harbor, soon gave way to more solid structures. The main business part of the city now is on solid ground, made... ...the surrender, additional reinforcements arrived. During the siege General Sherman had been sent to Smithland, at the mouth of the Cumberland River, t... ...d Pittsburg landing. Sherman had posted some troops in a log-house and out-buildings which overlooked both the bridge over which Wallace was expected ... ...- onstration on the north side of the James, and attacked the enemy on the Williamsburg Road, and also on the Y ork River Railroad. In the former he w...

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