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At Chattanooga in 1863, George Thomas refused Grant’s order to attack until he was resupplied with draft horses to pull his artillery. Grant was furious, but Thomas was right and, by refusing to attack prematurely, he probably saved Grant’s career. Ridgway and Taylor were also correct, and may well have saved Ike from certain disaster.f
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
America: The Civil War (America, Great Crises In Our History Told by it's Makers)
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Max Boot • Invisible Armies
In the middle of the last century, Lewis marched into the line of fire to summon a nation to be what it had long said it would be but had failed to become. Arrested forty-five times over the course of his life, Lewis suffered a fractured skull and was repeatedly beaten and tear-gassed. He led by example more than by words. He was a peaceful soldier
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second tour guide, the antislavery, anti-abolitionist Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826).
Ibram X. Kendi • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Andy Jackson and Abe Lincoln!”
Jon Meacham • The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
Rounding out the group were Thomas Nelson, Jr., son of the late Virginia governor, and Washington’s young nephew Robert Lewis, who had escorted his aunt Martha to New York. Among members of Congress, James Madison stood in a class by himself in his advisory capacity to Washington. When he ran for Congress, Madison had consulted Washington about how
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The Army of Northern Virginia – One of many nicknames for the Army intelligence unit that began its life in 1980 as the Field Operations Group, and was known for much of the 1980s as the Intelligence Support Activity. Other cover names and nicknames down through the years have included the Tactical Coordination Detachment, the U.S. Army Office of M
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