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Grant...Now that's a bomb!!!
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The wife was watching the TV series "Grant" as I walked by earlier and this stopped me in my tracks...... "After the Donelson campaign, Grant received over 10,000 boxes of congratulatory cigars from a grateful citizenry. He also was know for smoking 20 cigars per day".
My only comment was "**** that's unbelievable".....Wife told me I should have been a general.
I wonder how many coolers he had?
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He inhaled every one of them too, and died of lung cancer. Man's man right there brother!
IIRC, close... but no cigar. Grant chawed his gars. That was a popular way of chewing baccy in the day. Ergo, died from probably throat cancer. At the time he died, he was rewriting his memoirs, in which he bitterly regretted the Civil War as an unwarranted aggression by the North. ... so maybe we should knock his monuments down.
Only 20, Frank does that by lunch. Amateur
Hmmmm conflicts with what I read. Something for me to research today!
I had always heard throat cancer from chewing on a cigar all day.
From CA...
Grant was a two-term president almost always caricatured, illustrated, sculpted, or photographed with his beloved cigar. In fact, toward the end of the war, when Grant suffered a particularly severe bout of depression, he wrote that he was so unhappy that he was "eating neither breakfast nor dinner" and he had "not smoked a cigar."
Grant was said to smoke 20 cigars a day. His habit increased during the Civil War, after the Battle at Fort Donelson in Tennessee in mid-February 1862. As he later told General Horace Porter, "I had been a light smoker previous to the attack on Donelson .... In the accounts published in the papers, I was represented as smoking a cigar in the midst of the conflict; and many persons, thinking, no doubt, that tobacco was my chief solace, sent me boxes of the choicest brands .... As many as ten thousand were soon received. I gave away all I could get rid of, but having such a quantity on hand I naturally smoked more than I would have done under ordinary circumstances, and I have continued the habit ever since."