. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . only with time, whose affectionknew neither variableness nor shadow of turning, who stuck tohim as closely as the toga to Xessus, whether he was captain,general, President, or simply private citizen. General Grant was essentially created for great emerg-encies ; it was the very magnitude of the task which called forththe powers which mastered it. In ordinary matters he was anordinary man. In momentous affairs he towered as a he served in a company there was nothing in his acts todistinguish him from the fellow officers;
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . only with time, whose affectionknew neither variableness nor shadow of turning, who stuck tohim as closely as the toga to Xessus, whether he was captain,general, President, or simply private citizen. General Grant was essentially created for great emerg-encies ; it was the very magnitude of the task which called forththe powers which mastered it. In ordinary matters he was anordinary man. In momentous affairs he towered as a he served in a company there was nothing in his acts todistinguish him from the fellow officers; but when he wieldedcorps and armies the great qualities of the commander flashedforth, and his master-strokes of genius placed him at once inthe front rank of the worlds great captains. When he hauledwood from his little farm and sold it in the streets of St. Louis,there was nothing in his business or financial capacity differentfrom that of the small farmers about him; but when, as Presi-dent of the Republic, he found it his duty to puncture the R>?<2.
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