RETURN OF THE ARMY -- MARRIAGE -- ORDERED TO THE
PACIFIC COAST -- CROSSING THE ISTHMUS -- ARRIVAL
AT SAN FRANCISCO.
MY experience in the Mexican war was of great advantage to me afterwards. Besides the many practical lessons it taught, the war brought nearly all the officers of the regular army together so as to make them personally acquainted. It also brought them in contact with volunteers, many of whom served in the war of the rebellion afterwards. Then, in my particular case, I had been at West Point at about the right time to meet most of the graduates who were of a suitable age at the breaking out of the rebellion to be trusted with large commands. Graduating in 1843, I was at the military academy from one to four years with all cadets who graduated between 1840 and 1846 -- seven classes. These classes embraced more than fifty officers who afterwards became generals on one side or the other in the rebellion, many of them holding high commands. All the older officers, who became conspicuous in the rebellion, I had also served with and known in Mex
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Publication information:
Book title: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.
Volume: 1.
Contributors: Ulysses S Grant - Author.
Publisher: Charles L. Webster.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1885.
Page number: 191.
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