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By Ulysses S. Grant
I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly, so that there could be no mistaking it.
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- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume II, 1886 · p. 492
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From Grant's Personal Memoirs, Volume II (New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1886, copyright 1885). Grant describes writing the terms of Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.