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Title: A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Richardson, Albert D. (Albert Deane), 1833-1869
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company San Francisco, Cal., R. J. Trumbull & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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r, which he had lost, but on another which he had cap-tured. His hat new from his head, and the Intelligent Con-traband, with shells bursting all around him, was frightenedalmost to death. Gilpin-like he ran a race, and Gilpin-like he won it, too,for he passed both Rawlins and Grant, and first reached thehead-quarters boat. Rawlins rode on next, and, in the con-fusion, under that hot fire, the plank was drawn in and thesteamer started. Just then Grant appeared on the bank.The captain of the steamer did not know the quiet, rough-looking soldier, apparently a private, who stood there amidwhistling bullets, but an aide explained that it was the Gen-eral commanding. So the plank was again run out, Grantrode his horse up it, and the transport pushed off. The rebels were now so near that our gun-boats openedupon them with grape and canister, cutting great gaps intheir columns. But from the best cover they could find, f H E iK C LIBR-, A$TOR, LENOX ANDTILOEN FOUNDATIONS. r: i i.i .iii
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s o s CC 1861 ) Xiggee Wuf More to Me. 203 they poured a vicious musketry fire into our crowded trans-ports. The next day their Columbus papers stated that ourmen were slaughtered until streams of blood poured fromthe transports and crimsoned the Mississippi, and Polkordered the firing stopped, declaring that this was too muchshedding of blood, even though it flowed from the invadersof their soil! Actually, not a man was killed, and onlytwo soldiers and one deck-hand wounded. The reason—over-shooting—was a common one, as the assailants wereon higher ground than the steamers. It was five oclock when the little Union fleet got off.On the head-quarters boat, Hillyer was missed, and it wasfeared he was killed ; but he turned up uninjured. Thenext question was, What had been done with the Generalshorse ? While it was being discussed, and Bob kept him-self safely out of sight, a quartermaster invited Grant to thelower deck, saying :— Come, General, and see what a pretty rebel pony Iha

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