Fire and IceOne wintry evening, Grant entered a hotel in Galena, Illinois. Sitting by the fire was a group of lawyers, one of whom glanced up at the weather-beaten Grant. "Here's a wastedr, gentlemen," he remarked, "and by the looks of him he's traveled through hell itself to get here."
"That's right," Grant cheerfully replied.
"And how did you find things down there?"
"Just like here," Grant declared, "lawyers all closest to the fire."
Grant, [Hiram] Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) American Civil War general, commander in chief of the Union forces (1864), 18th president of the United States (1869-77) [noted for his victorious Vicksburg campaign (1862–1863) and for his acceptance of General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox (1865)]
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