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The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant
Part 5.

CHAPTER LIII
10/22

She said she had not seen a Union flag for so long a time that it did her heart good to look upon it again.

She said her husband and son, being, Union men, had had to leave early in the war, and were now somewhere in the Union army, if alive.

She was without food or nearly so, so I ordered rations issued to her, and promised to find out if I could where the husband and son were.
There was no fighting on the 13th, further than a little skirmishing between Mott's division and the enemy.

I was afraid that Lee might be moving out, and I did not want him to go without my knowing it.

The indications were that he was moving, but it was found that he was only taking his new position back from the salient that had been captured.
Our dead were buried this day.


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