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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln and New Constitutional Governments
Grant was now, early in February, 1862, in command of the undefined District of West Tennessee, an advancement which fol lowed his early victories. He was now fairly in the cotton country. Cotton buyers swarmed in his department. He was bitterly hostile to them, as to everybody else trying to make money out of the mis' fortunes of the country. They demoralized the army. Cotton was worth a dollar a pound in the North, a price which brought large profits - particularly when the seller had stolen it to begin with. Speculators could pay liberally for expeditions into the rebel lines to bring out this cr0p. Some officers - chic?y volunteers, as regulars had soldierly ideas on this subject - accumulated many thousands of dollars. They defended themselves, saying: Why should not we take this profit. Who are periling our lives for the country, rather than speculators, who are here solely from mercenary considera tions?
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