The Life of Abraham Lincoln for Young People Told in Words of One Syllable
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A chance came to go to Ga-le-na, in the State of Il-li- nois. There Grant was a clerk in a store where they sold hides. There he was when the war broke out, and the South and the North, which had been as one, were now two, and full of hate. Four days af-ter Lin-coln's call for troops went through the land, U. S. Grant be-gan to drill some of the men in his place in the use of the gun. In a few THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 91 days he set off with them for Spring-field, 111. From there he wrote to... a man who held a high post at Wash- ing-ton and told him that he would like to be of use and help save the land fi*om its foe. No word came back. But Grant kept on, staid in the same cit-y, and gave his time to the drill of all the troops he could find. In five weeks' time Cap-tain Grant was made Col-o- nel and sent off to the seat of war at the head of the 2ist Il-li-nois. He went first to Mis-sou-ri and then to Cai-ro. Soon, with-out ask-ing for the post, he was made Brig-a-dier-Gen-er-al. A force of the foe, led by Gen.
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