Ulysses S. Grantin a sentence
- I was mulling over why the Confederate generals had better last words than the Union ones (Ulysses S. Grant's last word, "Water," was pretty lame) when I noticed a shadow blocking me from the sun.† (source)
- But the big news was that General Ulysses S. Grant was coming with them.† (source)
- Closer view: barracks, post exchanges, residences, etc. All buildings the same, whether the Ulysses S. Grant Theater or the General John J. Pershing School I attended, all as alike and featureless as those houses and hotels you buy in Monopoly.† (source)
- But now he was doing it again, with his son, and every detail of that land was clear in his mind: the well, the apple orchard, President Lincoln; her foal, Mary Todd; Ulysses S. Grant, their cow; General Lee, their hog.† (source)
- Unlike the American forces (which included among them a young Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee) that took a year to make that journey during the Mexican-American War of 1846, Oswald will make the trip in just one day.† (source)
- The few letters she kept were in the sitting room itself, filed among the pages of the two-volume Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, which to the best of her knowledge had never been opened by anyone but herself since it came off the press.† (source)
- Stanton wanted his commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant, back in Washington.† (source)
- For the Army of Northern Virginia has eluded the army of General Ulysses S. Grant.† (source)
- General Ulysses S. Grant supervises the occasion.† (source)
- General Ulysses S. Grant sat alone nearest his dear departed friend, next to a cross of lilies.† (source)
- After several bloody battles and costly, prolonged campaigns, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the Virginia town of Appomattox Court House.† (source)
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- Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant† (source)
- She thought she would die if she couldn't hold her mouth under Ulysses S. Grant's teat and squirt the warm milk into her mouth, or pull a tomato off its vine and eat it where she stood.† (source)
- Lee's counterpart on the Union side, General Ulysses S. Grant, had an admirable career after the war ended.† (source)
- Robert never mentioned the incident to his father, but his commanding officer, Ulysses S. Grant, personally wrote a letter of thanks to the actor.† (source)
- What Ulysses S. Grant does not know is that he will be returning to Washington by the same train within twenty-four hours.† (source)
- Tensions between Stanton and Johnson got so bad that in 1868 the president fired Stanton as secretary of war and replaced him with Ulysses S. Grant.† (source)
- Yet to allow the famous Ulysses S. Grant to take a room elsewhere would be an unthinkable loss of prestige.† (source)
- He retired soon after the vote, only to be nominated as a justice to the Supreme Court by the newly elected president, Ulysses S. Grant.† (source)
- In a best-case scenario, Lincoln's general in chief, Ulysses S. Grant, will trap Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his army inside Petersburg, forcing their surrender.† (source)
- The question "Who is buried in Grant's tomb?" seems an obvious one, for Ulysses S. Grant is buried in this enormous mausoleum in New York's Riverside Park.† (source)
- The Confederate army, under the command of General Robert E. Lee, has been pinned inside the city for more than 250 days by Union forces under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant.† (source)
- As Booth takes the train to Baltimore, hoping to reenlist a former conspirator for that night's expected executions, General Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia, arrive in Washington at dawn.† (source)
- While John Wilkes Booth is still in Newport, a hungry Robert E. Lee is in Amelia Court House, Ulysses S. Grant is racing to block Lee's path, and Abraham Lincoln stands on the deck of USS Malvern as the warship chugs slowly and cautiously up the James River toward Richmond.† (source)
- In fact he had an obsession about teaching and was always saying, "Teach me about Chicago," "Teach me about General Ulysses S. Grant.† (source)
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