Text Appearing Before Image: rly qualities of self-poise, mod-esty, decision, attention to detail. Grant had never been brought into contact with men ofpublic reputation and had no influential friends to push hisfortunes when the Civil War opened to him an opportunity.His skill as a drill-master was discovered by accident, and thissecured an opportunity for him to go to the Illinois capitalwith the Galena company he had been drilling. He attractedthe attention of Governor Yates and was given a clerical posi-tion in the adjutant-generals office in filling out army forms.When his appointment as colonel to an unruly volunteer regi-ment followed, he at once gave proof of the education he hadacquired at West Point and his experience of fifteen yearsservice in the regular army. In executing his first orders to take the field, he astonishedhis superiors by marching his regiment across country insteadof moving it comfortably by rail. And when the laggardsof the regiment were compelled to march in their stocking feet (42) Text Appearing After Image: COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF flEVIEWS CO. GRANT—ON HIS FIRST TRIP NORTH The war is over. Grant has received in a magnanimous spirit, rarely paralleled inhistory, the surrender of Lee. Here he appears in Philadelphia on his first trip Northafter the war. His bearing is that of a man relieved of a vast responsibility, butwith the marks of it still upon him. He is thinner than the full-chested soldier inthe photograph taken in 1803, after the fall of Vicksburg. His dress is careless, asalways, but shows more attention than when he was in the field. He looks out ofthe picture with the unflinching eyes that had been able to penetrate the future andsee the wisdom of the plan that proved the final undoing of the Confederacy.
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