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Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885

The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

Ulysses S. Grant on history

Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 3

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