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Quotation from Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant
“The sight was more unendurable than encountering the enemy's fire, and I returned to my tree in the rain”
Personal Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XXIV
On the night after the first day at Shiloh, Grant, in pain from a fall, leaves a log-house hospital where wounds are dressed and limbs amputated.
Citation: "The sight was more unendurable than encountering the enemy's fire, and I returned to my tree in the rain" — Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XXIV. (id personal-memoirs-q8)
Portrait: Ulysses S. Grant 1870-1880, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Public domain.
