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Ulysses S. Grant
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Born 1822 in Point Pleasant · Died 1885 in Wilton
writer · United States
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- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete1885 · Read here →
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete
From Project Gutenberg e-text #4367 (public domain in the USA).
I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.
I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on.