Men of the time : being biographies of generals Hooker, Rosencrans, Grant, McClernand, Mitchell . MAJOR-GENERAL JOSEPH HOOKER. MEN OF THE TIME: BEENG BIOGEAPHIES OF GENERALS HOOKER, GRANT, ROSECRANS, McCLERNAND, MITCHELL. BEADLE AND COMPANY, NEW YORK: il8 WILLIAM STREET. LONDON: 44 PATEIiNOSTER HOW. ^^ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by BEADLE AND COMPANY, In the Clerk!s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. CONTENTS. JOSEPH HOOKER, - - 11 MAJOR-GEXERAL WILLIAM S. ROSECRANS, 37 MAJOR-GENERAL LTLYSSES
Men of the time : being biographies of generals Hooker, Rosencrans, Grant, McClernand, Mitchell . MAJOR-GENERAL JOSEPH HOOKER. MEN OF THE TIME: BEENG BIOGEAPHIES OF GENERALS HOOKER, GRANT, ROSECRANS, McCLERNAND, MITCHELL. BEADLE AND COMPANY, NEW YORK: il8 WILLIAM STREET. LONDON: 44 PATEIiNOSTER HOW. ^^ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by BEADLE AND COMPANY, In the Clerk!s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. CONTENTS. JOSEPH HOOKER, - - 11 MAJOR-GEXERAL WILLIAM S. ROSECRANS, 37 MAJOR-GENERAL LTLYSSES S. GRANT, - - 67 MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN A. McCLERNAND, 83 ]\IAJOR-GENERAL O. M. MITCHELL, - - 94. S EXCHAMCF^iSugl^t and BOOK Maikct St. MEN OF THE TIME. MAJOR-GENERAL JOSEPH HOOKER. Among the brave and capable men whom the intoleranceand oppression of Charles I, and the stormy scenes whichculminated in his overthrow, led to abandon their nativecountry, and rear new states for freedom and religion beyondthe waters, there was none of higher capacity, of more remark-able prescience and talent for , or of more com-manding personal dignity than that Thomas Hooker, who, inthe summer of 1636, led a company of over one hundred set-tlers, one hundred and twenty miles through the wilderness,to found the beautiful city of Hartford, and the colony ofConnecticut. As a preacher, he w^as said by those who knewwell the clerical talent of New England, to have had no equalin the colonies; and it is more than hinted that the greatmen of the Massachusetts colony were not averse to his estab-lishing himself at such a distance from them, lest his trans-cendent abilities smenoftimebeingbi00vict
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