When the (American Civil War) broke out, (Ulysses) Grant unhesitatingly wrote to the War Department to try to get a commission in the regulars to fight secession. He never received a reply (the letter was found some years later in "Some out-of-the-way place" in the adjutant general's office), but a month later the governor of Illinois appointed Grant colonel of the 21st Illinois volunteers, and from then on, Grant went nowhere but up.
- From Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction by Allen Guelzo
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