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Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Subjects: Historic buildings -- United States United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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PRESENT ASPECT OF PITTSBURG LANDING, OR SHILOH, IN TENNESSEE.Here Grant first won fame. On the hill to the right is seen the flag-staff of the National Cemetery.
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GENERAL GRANT WRITING HIS MEMOIRS AT MOUNT McGREGOR. 190 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS Americas foremost living man, said Uncle Tom, and because, especially,it was in New York that he waged the longest, the fiercest, the most dra-matic fight of his whole life. A battle in New York! Why, where was that? exclaimed Marian,overhauling her historical knowledge to locate such a famous fight. In that plain vine-covered, brown-stone house which I showed you atNumber 3 East Sixty-sixth street, her uncle returned. There Ulysses S. Grant fought the battle against dis-aster, disgrace, and death - - and wonit. In all history, added Uncle Tom,gravely, there has been no morepathetic, no more dramatic, no moreheroic spectacle. Tell us about it, Uncle Tom, saidChristine. He had reached the pinnacle offame in his native land, Uncle Tomdeclared. He had led its armies tovictory; he had been hailed conquerorand deliverer; he had stood at thehead of the republic as President; hehad traveled in forei

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