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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT dtnspeed.net>]

Ahem. Let us speak respectfully of the sons of Illinois.

Lincoln appreciated Grant:

<<One close associate of Lincoln's who did not agree with him about whiskey
was General Ulysses S. Grant, who President Lincoln eventually placed in
command of the Union army and who is generally credited with winning the war
for the North. Grant was a notorious consumer of Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey,
for which he was often criticized. Responding to that criticism, at the
height of the war, Lincoln supposedly asked what brand of whiskey Grant
preferred, so he could send some of it to all of his other generals. (Grant
is said to have favored Old Crow.)>>

This came from http://www.straightbourbon.com/articles/cclincoln.html, but
I've heard many versions of the story.

Marie