The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . the army in 1854 and en-gaged in farming, but wasnot successful. When thecivil war broke out he was aclerk in the leather-store ofhis father in Galena, Illinois,on a small salary. He thenbecame mustering officer forthe State of Illinois, was ap-pointed colonel of the Twen-ty-first Regiment from thatState, and thus entered onhis great military career. We have seen that Grant left Sherman to command °*° ^^^- ginia. in the West, while he took up his headquarters withMeade in front of Washington. The veteran Easternar
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . the army in 1854 and en-gaged in farming, but wasnot successful. When thecivil war broke out he was aclerk in the leather-store ofhis father in Galena, Illinois,on a small salary. He thenbecame mustering officer forthe State of Illinois, was ap-pointed colonel of the Twen-ty-first Regiment from thatState, and thus entered onhis great military career. We have seen that Grant left Sherman to command °*° ^^^- ginia. in the West, while he took up his headquarters withMeade in front of Washington. The veteran Easternarmies that had fought so long against each other, be-tween Washington and Richmond, were now to fightto the death, each under the most famous general on itsside. Robert Edward Lee, who now confronted General Robert e. lcGrant, was born in Virginia, June 19, 1807. He wasgraduated at West Point in 1829, second in his distinguished himself as an engineer in the siege ofVera Cruz. He was for three years in command of theMilitary Academy at West Point. When his own State. ULYSSES S. GRANT. rate battlehe Wilder ,,6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. of Virginia seceded, he thought himself bound to gowith it. He resigned his commission on the 20th ofApril, 1861, and was made commander-in-chief of theVirginia State forces, and later a Confederate his great ability was mostly due the stubbornnessof the struggle carried on by the Confederates betweenRichmond and Washington. Under Grant and Meade, theArmy of the Potomac moved for-ward toward Richmond. It en-countered Lees army in a regionof dense woods, full of under-growth, known as The Wilder-ness. Grants forces were muchthe more numerous, for by thistime the South, which had putforth nearly its whole strengthfrom the beginning, was becom-ing somewhat exhausted. On theother hand, Lee fought behind in-trenchments, and, in changing hisposition, moved on shorter lines than his opponent. Forsixteen days, in the Wilderness an
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