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From: "Ralph Anderson" <>
Subject: Re: US Grant quote?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:46:56 -0700
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Cheryl,

Your quote is familiar but I cannot locate it. The Book Historic Galena by
Florence Gratiot Bale quotes Grant on a trip home during the war as saying"
I would like to be Mayor of Galena and then I would get a sidewalk built
from my home to the depot." The book shows a picture dated Aug 19, 1865 with
a banner stretched across Main Street proclaiming " General, the sidewalk is
built". It was built of pine boards

Ralph Anderson
Boulder, CO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Hemingway" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 7:02 PM
Subject: US Grant quote?


> You will now know the my mind is completely gone! I KNOW that I put a
document on the website recently that had a quote in it by Ulysses S. Grant
where he said that the biggest perk of being the president was that he got a
sidewalk from his house in Galena to downtown. Does anyone recognize this
quote and call you tell me where it is? <LOL>
>
> Thanks for responding to my survey. I'm going to keep this open for about
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them with everyone who participated.
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