Response to a toast at the Grant Banquet at the Palmer House, Chicago, 1879 Nov. 13.

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Response to a toast at the Grant Banquet at the Palmer House, Chicago, 1879 Nov. 13.

Ingersoll praises the men who fought to preserve the Union during the Civil War.

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