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Grant was supposed to not smoke in his later years, but Mark Twain, a friend, kept on bringing him cigars!

Hancock the Superb wrote:

Grant was supposed to not smoke in his later years, but Mark Twain, a friend, kept on bringing him cigars!

I remember reading somewhere, that in Grant's last days he could'nt even hold a cigar in his mouth, so Mark Twain would smoke really close to him so Grant could inhale the second-hand smoke. It was a sort of joke between them.

AG Wrote: Excuse me for missing the jist of your message, but what the hell does Mark Twain have to do with Grant smoking so many cigars?..And considering Huck Finn didn't even exist during the Civil War.....

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Doesn't have to make sense! Hancock is just trying to make brigade commander in record time is all!:laugh:

ironsight wrote:

AG Wrote: Excuse me for missing the jist of your message, but what the hell does Mark Twain have to do with Grant smoking so many cigars?..And considering Huck Finn didn't even exist during the Civil War.....

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Doesn't have to make sense! Hancock is just trying to make brigade commander in record time is all!:laugh:

I'm sure there's a quote out there somewhere that speed isn't necessary, slow and easy..... but i can't think of any :dry:

Armchair General wrote:

ironsight wrote:

AG Wrote: Excuse me for missing the jist of your message, but what the hell does Mark Twain have to do with Grant smoking so many cigars?..And considering Huck Finn didn't even exist during the Civil War.....

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Doesn't have to make sense! Hancock is just trying to make brigade commander in record time is all!:laugh:

I'm sure there's a quote out there somewhere that speed isn't necessary, slow and easy..... but i can't think of any :dry:

Here in Lancaster County the saying is, "The hurrier you go, the behinder you get."

Well, Huck Finn is Mark Twains creation, and I forgot Mark's name at the moment, so I wrote that down.

OK?:)