Excerpt from Civil War Officers; Union: Ulysses S. Grant (3); Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources
When the war broke out in 1861, he served briefly as a colonel in the Illinois Voluntary Infantry before being com missioned a brigadier general by Presi dent Abraham Lincoln and ordered to report to Cairo, Ill. In a photograph he is standing on the steps of the Cairo postoffice in civilian clothes: He was broke again and had to borrow $500 for a horse and equipment.
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