In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside,… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him,… — Edwin M. Stanton Copy Share Image
Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
[Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant's Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
“The President said: “General Grant, the nation’s appreciation of what you have done, and its reliance upon you for what remains to… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“[During this winter the citizens of Jo Davies County, Ill., subscribed for and had a diamond-hilled sword made for General Grant, which… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
“General Grant seriously remarked to a particularly bright young woman that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“During the nineteenth century, corps commander was the highest level of command to still require skills of an operator for success. A… — Robert Scales Copy Share Image
“When Grant made Edward S. Salomon governor of the Washington Territory, it was the first time an American Jew had occupied a… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“See that little stream — we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“We should hang one of those reporter bastards every week. They're more help to the enemy than spies." "They'd make poor spies,… — Micael Kilian Copy Share Image
“Around this time, Mark Twain belonged to a small, irregular Confederate company and later claimed for comic effect that he had been… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
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