. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . of the manwho was destined to direct all the armies of the Union. Early in the opening war-year, 1861, an embryo Illinoisregiment was on the verge of dissolution. It was made up ofas good flesh and hlood and spirit as ever followed the the colonel was a politician without military training, andunder him the men refused to serve. There was no red tapeto cut, for there had heen no muster-in for service. So the re-jected colonel was sent his way, and a plain, modest man,Ulysses S. Grant by name, was put in his place. Colonel
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . of the manwho was destined to direct all the armies of the Union. Early in the opening war-year, 1861, an embryo Illinoisregiment was on the verge of dissolution. It was made up ofas good flesh and hlood and spirit as ever followed the the colonel was a politician without military training, andunder him the men refused to serve. There was no red tapeto cut, for there had heen no muster-in for service. So the re-jected colonel was sent his way, and a plain, modest man,Ulysses S. Grant by name, was put in his place. Colonel Grant was ordered to Missouri. He declined rail-road transportation. Said he, I thought it would he goodpreparation for the troops to march there. He marched hismen from Camp Yates, at Springfield, to Quincy, on the Mis-sissippi River, about one hundred miles, expecting to go asmuch further, when an emergency order from the War Depart-ment required him to take cars and hasten to another early in the war, such a march was phenomenal. It was m is;. IB.
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