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Later in the war, while occupying the country between the Tennessee and the Mississippi, I learned that the panic in the Confederate lines had not differed much from that within our own.
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gutenberg.orgUlysses S. Grant: “Later in the war, while occupying the country between the Tennessee and the Mississippi, I learned that the panic in the…”
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Grant notes the similarities in panic experienced by both Union and Confederate troops during the war.
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