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Excerpt from The Life and Campaigns of General U. S, GrantIn the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving t...

Excerpt from The Miner Boy and His Monitor: Or, the Career and Achievements of John Ericsson, the EngineerThe sources of information were furnished by Captain Ericsson in part. Mrs. Bunbury's Travels in Sweden, an old history of the kingdom, and Abbott's History of the Rebellion, were valuable works of reference.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis...

Excerpt from Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Women of the Bible, From Eve of the Old to the Marys of the New TestamentHe told Eve what God had done in fit ting up their abode, and gave her the names of animals sporting by her side.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books...

Excerpt from The Reaper and the Harvest: Or, Scenes and Incidents in Connection With the Work of the Holy Spirit in the Life and Labors of Rev. Edward Payson Hammond, M. AA general and sufficient reason for the publica tion of such a work is found, in the following ex tract from the British Standard, by Rev. Dr. Campbell, of London, referring to Mr. Hammond's labors in Scotland One theatre of his operations was Dumfries, where a work of a very...

Excerpt from The Island of Fire: Or, a Thousand Years of the Old Northmen's Home, 874-1874This volume was suggested by a contribution to The Cornhill Magazine upon Iceland, in connection with the then approaching Millennial Jubilee.In seeking historical light upon a subject respecting which the writer confesses he was in the dark, very few works could be found outside Of Our largest libraries, and those, were imported books.It was the first th...

Excerpt from The Life of Napoleon BonaparteThe King of kings hung a dark cloud over his star of destiny, when the cruel blow fell on the exiled Wife, whose only crime was that heaven had written her to him childless. That cloud expanded till it darkened all the sky and bolt after bolt came down upon his lofty brow, and laid it low on a captive's pillow within the confines of a rocky island, Where, Prometheus-like, he was compelled to feel the ...

Excerpt from The Life of Mary Queen of ScotsThe biography of Mary Stuart, therefore, has not only the interest of tragedy, but is a focal point in history, in which the past and present meet, with an intensity of life, perhaps, unknown in the annals of woman, if we except the rise and decline of the Em press, [josephine] whose destiny was the dial of N a peleon'a fate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare a...

Excerpt from Public Men of Today: Being Biographies of the President and Vice President of the United States, Each Member of the Cabinet, the United States Senators and the Members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-Seventh CongressThe author is under many obligations for the favor and uniform cour tesy with which his numerous applications for information, made to the honorable gentlemen whose lives are the subjects of this series, h...

Excerpt from Public Men of Today: Being Biographies of the President and Vice President of the United States, Each Member of the Cabinet, the United States Senators and the Members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-Seventh CongressThe author is under many obligations for the favor and uniform cour tesy with which his numerous applications for information, made to the honorable gentlemen whose lives are the subjects of this series, h...

Excerpt from The Patriot Boy: Or the Life and Career of Major-General Ormsby M. MitchelThis volume is from authentic sources and it is believed that in no important statement will the truthfulness of the narrative be questioned. Still the portraiture drawn must fall below the splendid original. For, while the records of his life are not full as we could wish, and as the great departed intended they should be for the sake of his family, it is n...

Excerpt from Fighting Phil: The Life and Military Career of Philip Henry Sheridan, General of the Army of the United StatesThe North was ashamed of her cavalry, in contrast with that of the South, at the beginning of the war, but before its close was proud of the troopers whom their last great leader, Sheridan, covered with glory unsurpassed in the history of any con¿ict.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rar...

Excerpt from Life and Military Career of Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman The Boyhood of heroes-the ancestry of William Tecumseh Sherman The death of his Father - Why the name of the Indian Chief was given him - The Birth-place of William Tecumseh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical wo...

The Patriot Boy - Or, the Life and Career of Major-General Ormsby M. Mitchell is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are availab...

Excerpt from Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Women of the Bible, From Eve of the Old to the Marys of the New Testament It was not the design of adding essentially to Biblical Literature, neither the cacoethes scribendi, that induced the Author to increase the number of similar works which have appeared. It was the suggestion of another, enforced by the consideration, that while there are elegant Gift Books of Female Scripture Biog...

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