. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . CH.\ MAIN BUILDING UF THK CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, OPENED BY PRESIDENT GRANT IN 1S76 ULYSSES S. GRANT THE HERO OK THE CIVIL WAR. HE historyof theWar for the Union ought to forever set atrest the idea that the day of heroes is past—that thereare no longer great men to be found in occasions of su-preme need. Never was a great nation seemingly morehelpless than the United States when Lincoln was inaugu-rated. Without army or navy, a government honeycombedwith treason and apparently falling to pieces, a weak andnerveless
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . CH.\ MAIN BUILDING UF THK CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, OPENED BY PRESIDENT GRANT IN 1S76 ULYSSES S. GRANT THE HERO OK THE CIVIL WAR. HE historyof theWar for the Union ought to forever set atrest the idea that the day of heroes is past—that thereare no longer great men to be found in occasions of su-preme need. Never was a great nation seemingly morehelpless than the United States when Lincoln was inaugu-rated. Without army or navy, a government honeycombedwith treason and apparently falling to pieces, a weak andnerveless administration giving place to one made up ofnew and untried men, a people without unity of mind or pur-pose, and not knowing whom to trust,—this was the situa-tion which loyal men faced with sinking hearts. Yet, onlyten davs later, when the boom of sruns in Charleston harbor echoed over the[ North, all was changed as in the twinkling of an eye. At the call of the newPresident for aid, it seemed as though armed men sprang from the among them were not only soldiers
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