Memphis

Examples

• About a mile west from where I had been stopping a road comes up from the southeast, joining that from La Grange to Memphis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the river up to the shoals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Memphis therefore was practically isolated from the balance of the command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In consequence of this law, when Memphis was occupied the provost-marshal had forcibly collected all the evidences he could obtain of such debts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the 13th of September General Sterling Price entered Iuka, a town about twenty miles east of Corinth on the Memphis and Charleston railroad. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When Sherman started on his expedition down the river he had 20,000 men, taken from Memphis, and was reinforced by 12,000 more at Helena, Arkansas. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Having accomplished the object of his expedition, General Smith returned to Memphis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Of these 4,800 were in Kentucky and Illinois, 7,000 in Memphis, 19,200 from Mound City south, and 17,500 at Corinth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I, too, stopped and we remained there until the cool of the afternoon, and then rode into Memphis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was in this way Edison made his way south as far as Memphis, Tennessee, where the telegraph service at that time was under military law, although the operators received $125 a month. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As a matter of fact, the conditions at Louisville at that time were not much better than they had been at Memphis. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I was very loath to send Sherman, because his men needed rest after their long march from Memphis and hard fighting at Chattanooga. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Headquarters were connected by telegraph with all points of the command except Memphis and the Mississippi below Columbus. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My occupation of Memphis as district headquarters did not last long. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• After leaving Memphis, there are no such highlands coming to the water's edge on the east shore until Vicksburg is reached. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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