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Excerpt from The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 4: Being the History of the United States, as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, an Defenders of the Republic and of the Men and Women Who Are Doing the Work an Moulding the Thought of the Present Time Mexican soldier, was called upon to preside. In four days he was drilling a company of volunteers, then offered himself to Gov. Yates of Illinois, and was given the charge of muster g regiments. He was placed in command of several, and when the time came to move there was trouble about trans portation. I will furnish transportation, said he, quietly. He took the regiment out on foot and crossed into Missouri, where it served as part of the nard of important railroads under Gen. Pope's orces. His eleven years' service in the regular army brought him a commission as brigadier-general of volunteers, to date from May 17, 1861. On May 24, 1861, he wrote to Adj. Gen. Thomas, commanding at Washington, D. C., tendering his services to the government. No answer was received. The letter was carelessly filed away and temporarily lost. Gov. Yates then placed Grant in command of the 2lst Illinois volunteer infantry, and on July 3d he led it to Palmyra. Mo., and from there to guard the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad. Subsequently he took command of the district of southeast Mis souri with headquarters at Cairo His troops were soon increased by the accession of Gen. Mcclernand's brigade. Cairo, being at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, was the key of the West. The surrounding country was full of disaflection and disorder, and distrust prevailed. Kentucky, which professed to be a Union state, and had fur nished many gallant soldiers for the starry banner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.