...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...iving with judge Tod. But his thirst for education was intense. He learned rapidly, and was a con- stant reader up to the day of his death in his eigh... ...is return home. There were no telegraphs in those days to disseminate news rapidly, no railroads west of the Alleghanies, and but few east; and above ... ... travelling by the road from Harrisburg, I thought the perfection of rapid transit had been reached. We trav- elled at least eighteen miles an hour, w... ... the transportation of the regiment to Cali- fornia, including the Isthmus transit. A certain amount of baggage was allowed per man, and saddle animal... ...nts were spreading it. Soon after his graduation, Slaughter was ordered to California and took passage by a sailing vessel going around Cape Horn. The... ...umbus, on his left, to Mill Springs, on his right. As we have seen, Colum- bus, both banks of the T ennessee River, the west bank of the Cumberland an... ...feats at Henry and Donelson; their long marches from Bowling Green, Colum- bus, and Nashville, and their failure at Shiloh; in fact from having been d...

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