Maligned General: The Biography of Thomas Sidney Jesup |
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Page 84
... president's authorization.32 Jesup , busily engaged in supervising the transportation of the two expeditions moving into wilderness country , was unaware of the president's large advance to the Johnsons and the precarious financial ...
... president's authorization.32 Jesup , busily engaged in supervising the transportation of the two expeditions moving into wilderness country , was unaware of the president's large advance to the Johnsons and the precarious financial ...
Page 142
... President Jackson , having gone on a vacation trip to his home in Tennessee , was not in Washington when Scott arrived in the North . Secretary Cass was also temporarily absent from the city . Scott used their absence " as a pretense ...
... President Jackson , having gone on a vacation trip to his home in Tennessee , was not in Washington when Scott arrived in the North . Secretary Cass was also temporarily absent from the city . Scott used their absence " as a pretense ...
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... president's endorsement on White's letter . He was prepared to prove , as he would have done had his request for a court of inquiry been granted , that he had " no agency whatso- ever in the recall of General Scott from the command of ...
... president's endorsement on White's letter . He was prepared to prove , as he would have done had his request for a court of inquiry been granted , that he had " no agency whatso- ever in the recall of General Scott from the command of ...
Contents
Glory on the Battlefield | 26 |
An Officer of Repute | 42 |
Birth of a Supply Bureau | 67 |
Copyright | |
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