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Quotation from Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant

“About one-third of the people with me died, either at Cruces or on the way to Panama”

Ulysses S. Grant

Personal Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XIV

Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

Grant, as regimental quartermaster, leads the sick and the soldiers' families across the Isthmus during a cholera outbreak in 1852.

Citation: "About one-third of the people with me died, either at Cruces or on the way to Panama" — Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XIV. (id personal-memoirs-q5)

Portrait: Ulysses S. Grant 1870-1880, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Public domain.

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