Will you permit the
steamboat men to celebrate the fourth of July. By the firing of cannon from
their respective steamers at sunrise & sunset holding a meeting reading of
Declaration of independence &c.
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Grant’s reply, reply,
"Yes," was noted on the bottom of this telegram.
SOURCE: John Y.
Simon, Editor, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 8, p. 470
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