The Reason why General Grant Smokes.
General Grant says he first tried smoking at West Point, but did not care for it, and it was not until he was engaged in .the early contests of the war that he began to acquire the habit. He found a cigar of service in relieving a mental strain, and during a battle he often had one in his mouth — though even then he was not an inveterate smoker. Newspaper correspondents, however, began to describe him as smoking, and so many boxes of excellent cigars came into his headquarters as gifts from all parts of the country that he was Boon confirmed in the habit.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1522, 8 January 1881, Page 27
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111The Reason why General Grant Smokes. Otago Witness, Issue 1522, 8 January 1881, Page 27
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