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By Ulysses S. Grant
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
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- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume II, 1886 · p. 488
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- Internet Archive (scan of the Charles L. Webster & Company edition, 1886)
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From Grant's Personal Memoirs, Volume II (New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1886, copyright 1885), in the chapter on Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Grant is about to set the record straight on the "famous apple tree" story.