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ernor of Grant. The governor seems to have been puzzled. Meeting a book-keeper from the Galena store, he said: What kind of a man is this Captain Grant?. . . He . . . declined my offer to recommend him to Washington for a brigadier-generalship, saying he didn't want office till he had earned it. And the book-keeper replied, Ask him no questions, but simply order him to duty. On the day when, through a friend's offices, Grant had received the commission of colonel of an Ohio regiment, Governor Yates telegraphed him his appointment as colonel of the Twenty-first Illinois; and this he chose, and went to Springfield. There is a story that he was introduced to his command by two orators, who both burst into eloquence and rhapsodised for some time. His turn came, and much was expected from him; but his speech was this: Men, go to your quarters. They presently discovered that they had a colonel, although the colonel had no uniform, being obliged to go home and borrow three hundred do