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Headquarters General U. S. Grant

Shiloh, Tennessee
· Night of April 6, 1862.
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During a night of torrential rain, General Grant wrote in his Memoirs that his troops were exposed without shelter, while he made his headquarters under a large oak tree a few hundred yards from the river bank. That tree later stood until it was destroyed by a cyclone on October 14, 1909.
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