Grant "played the prankster and kept telling officers that each new dispatch showed McClellan in the lead. Only after midnight--by which time many dejected officers" had gone to bed--"did he admit delightedly" it had "been a hoax and Lincoln had been ahead the whole time." !! 2/2
From Ron Chernow's GRANT, Ulysses Grant, 1864 election-returns troll (!): "Grant and his staff displayed considerable anxiety as they awaited election returns on November 8. [T]hey gathered around a campfire and listened as Grant read aloud...telegrams updating the results." 1/2
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