Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ulysses S. Grant, the Citizen, the Soldier, the Statesman
General Grant's life of real service in the army began on 1st inly, 1843, when he was attached to the Fourth Infantry, with the rank of Brevet Second Lieutenant. At that time the events were ripening which brought on the Mexican war, and in 1845 his regiment was sent to Corpus Christi, at the mouth of the Nueces river, in Texas. Here the regiment became a part of the expeditionary force, which, under Rough-and Ready Zachary Taylor, inaugurated the war. There were numerous points of similarity in the characfter of the callow lieutenant and the grim old warrior in command, one of which was that neither of them knew when he was beaten; or, in other words, both possessed that stern tenacity of purpose which never let go its grip until the end sought was attained.
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