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Quotation from Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant
“It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him”
Personal Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XVIII
Grant's first independent advance as a colonel finds the enemy camp abandoned, a lesson he says he never forgot.
Citation: "It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him" — Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XVIII. (id personal-memoirs-q7)
Portrait: Ulysses S. Grant 1870-1880, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Public domain.
