. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . UL YSSES S. GRANT. 31 / When the Mexican War was over, he was stationed at:Sacketts Harbor, New York. He had long been attached toMiss Julia Dent, the sister of one of his classmates, and August22, 1848, she became his wife. Four years later he went with. -;^a^BHH^?l ^•mt-^ GRANT BREAKING A HORSE. his regiment to California and Oregon, where he became summer of 1854 saw, apparently, an end to his militarycareer, for he resigned his commission and tried to wor
. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . UL YSSES S. GRANT. 31 / When the Mexican War was over, he was stationed at:Sacketts Harbor, New York. He had long been attached toMiss Julia Dent, the sister of one of his classmates, and August22, 1848, she became his wife. Four years later he went with. -;^a^BHH^?l ^•mt-^ GRANT BREAKING A HORSE. his regiment to California and Oregon, where he became summer of 1854 saw, apparently, an end to his militarycareer, for he resigned his commission and tried to work a smallfarm near St. Louis, and attend to real estate in the city. He 3i2 ULYSSES S. GRANT. was not intended for either Greater things were instore for him, and, disheartened at his poor success, he went towork for his father, as clerk in his store—the leather trade, inGalena, Illinois. At the first sound of war he offered his services to the gov-ernment, and marched to Springfield at the head of a Yates placed him on his staff, and made him musteringofficer of all the volunteers from Illinois, but in June he wasmade colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment, which he had organ-ized and drilled himself. Needing cars to transport it to adistant point, he was told they could not be furnished. So littlea matter as that did not annoy him, but wi
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