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The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant
Part 6.

CHAPTER LXX
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He commanded a corps longer than any other one, and his name was never mentioned as having committed in battle a blunder for which he was responsible.

He was a man of very conspicuous personal appearance.

Tall, well-formed and, at the time of which I now write, young and fresh-looking, he presented an appearance that would attract the attention of an army as he passed.

His genial disposition made him friends, and his personal courage and his presence with his command in the thickest of the fight won for him the confidence of troops serving under him.

No matter how hard the fight, the 2d corps always felt that their commander was looking after them.
Sedgwick was killed at Spottsylvania before I had an opportunity of forming an estimate of his qualifications as a soldier from personal observation.


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