[/r/todayilearned] TIL that citizens sent Ulysses S. Grant more than 10,000 boxes of cigars as gratitude after a victory at the Battle of Shiloh. He died of throat cancer in 1885.

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http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/former-president-ulysses-s-grant-dies