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On one occasion a correspondent put in my mouth the very charge I had so often refuted--of disloyalty.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Grant recounts a misrepresentation by a correspondent that falsely attributed disloyalty to him.

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