. The great American book of biography . MAIN BUILDING OF THE CENTENNIAL KXPuSITION, OPENED BY PRESIDENT GRANT IN 1S76. ULYSSES S. GRANT, THE HERO OE THE CIVIL #-—-^v HE history of the War for the Union ought to forever set at«*^^^i«W) ^^^^ ■^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^y °^ 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
. The great American book of biography . MAIN BUILDING OF THE CENTENNIAL KXPuSITION, OPENED BY PRESIDENT GRANT IN 1S76. ULYSSES S. GRANT, THE HERO OE THE CIVIL #-—-^v HE history of the War for the Union ought to forever set at«*^^^i«W) ^^^^ ■^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^y °^ 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 3ays later, when the boom of guns in Charleston harbor echoed over theNorth, 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, but commanders,—the men who wereneeded to organize and drill these hosts, to convert them into a
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