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I see no prospect of the former, and there are many great, if not insuperable obstacles in the way of the latter.
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gutenberg.orgUlysses S. Grant: “I see no prospect of the former, and there are many great, if not insuperable obstacles in the way of the latter.”
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Grant expresses skepticism about the prospects of raising the siege or successfully supplying Vicksburg.
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