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� In the Mexican War Grant
learns a very important lesson about his own
emotional makeup. In moments of extreme danger, when other people
are panicking, Grant becomes very cool
in a crisis. He discovers nothing ever
rattled him in battle. ‐ You want to know what my feelings
were on the field of battle? I do not know that I felt
any peculiar sensation. War seems much less horrible
to persons engaged in it than to those
who read of the battle. ♪ ♪ ‐ Grant watches people die
horrible deaths in battle. He loses many of his friends,
one after the other, and so I think
he has a very clear sense of the costs of war
from the start
learns a very important lesson about his own
emotional makeup. In moments of extreme danger, when other people
are panicking, Grant becomes very cool
in a crisis. He discovers nothing ever
rattled him in battle. ‐ You want to know what my feelings
were on the field of battle? I do not know that I felt
any peculiar sensation. War seems much less horrible
to persons engaged in it than to those
who read of the battle. ♪ ♪ ‐ Grant watches people die
horrible deaths in battle. He loses many of his friends,
one after the other, and so I think
he has a very clear sense of the costs of war
from the start
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‐ In the Mexican War Grant
learns a very important lesson
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about his own
emotional makeup.
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In moments of extreme danger,
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when other people
are panicking,
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Grant becomes very cool
in a crisis.
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He discovers nothing ever
rattled him in battle.
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‐ You want to know
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what my feelings
were on the field of battle?
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I do not know that I felt
any peculiar sensation.
00:00:29.487 --> 00:00:33.741
War seems much less horrible
to persons engaged in it
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than to those
who read of the battle.
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♪ ♪
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‐ Grant watches people die
horrible deaths in battle.
00:00:42.025 --> 00:00:45.092
He loses many of his friends,
one after the other,
00:00:45.092 --> 00:00:48.999
and so I think
he has a very clear sense
00:00:48.999 --> 00:00:51.592
of the costs of war
from the start.
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Movie Summary
The documentary-series examines Ulysses S. Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.
