TOBACCO LEAVES 



GRANT'S CIGARS 



" MY father," said General Frederick 

 D. Grant, " tried to smoke while at West 

 Point, but only because it was against the 

 regulations ; and then he didn't succeed 

 very well at it. He really got the habit 

 from smoking light cigars and cigarettes 

 during the Mexican war, but it wasn't a 

 fixed habit. When he left the army and 

 lived in the country, he smoked a pipe 

 not incessantly. I don't think that he was 

 very fond of tobacco then, and really 

 there was always a popular misconception 

 of the amount of his smoking. 



" But he went on as a light smoker, a 

 casual smoker, until the day of the fall of 

 Fort Donelson. Then, the gunboats hav- 

 ing been worsted somewhat and Admiral 

 Foote having been wounded, he sent 

 ashore for my father to come and see him. 

 Father went aboard, and the admiral, as 



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