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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:09 am
During the Civil War, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant believed that onions would prevent dysentery and other physical ailments. He reportedly sent the following message via wire to the War Department: "I will not move my army without onions." Within a day, the U.S. government sent three trainloads of onions to the front.
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:10 am
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:53 am
Thems be some smelly soldiers. xp
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:01 am
Bob_the_evil_Faerie Thems be some smelly soldiers. xp He was kinda right. Onions can ward off a lot of the diseases that they had to contened with back then.
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:19 pm
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