=Suggested Readings.= ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Baldwin, _Four Great Americans_, 187-246; McMurry, _Pioneers of the Mississippi Valley_, 170-184; Wright, _Children's Stories of American Progress_, 159-178, 299-327; Brooks, _Century Book of Famous Americans_, 193-210; Hart and Stevens, _Romance of the Civil War_, 1-112; Bolton, _Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous_, 342-367; Mabie, _Heroes Every Child Should Know_, 309-319; Nicolay, _Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln_; Coffin, _Abraham Lincoln_; Mace, _Lincoln: The Man of the People_; Hale, _Stories of War_; Southworth, _Builders of Our Country_, Vol. II, 186-217. ANDREW JOHNSON: Sparks, _Expansion of the American People_, 433-438; Guerber, _Story of the Great Republic_, 252-256. TWO FAMOUS GENERALS ULYSSES S. GRANT, THE GREAT GENERAL OF THE UNION ARMIES [Sidenote: =Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1822=] [Sidenote: =Early schooling=] [Sidenote: =Fond of horses=] =167. A Poor Boy Becomes a Great Man.= Ulysses Simpson Grant was born in 1822, in Ohio, at a place called Point Pleasant. When he was a year old his parents removed to Georgetown, Ohio, and there a few years later he attended school. He was taught little besides reading, writing, and arithmetic. As he grew up he helped his father and mother by hauling wood, plowing, and doing other useful work. He did not like the leather business, his father's occupation, but he found great pleasure in farm work because he was very fond of horses. [Sidenote: =He liked to travel=] Young Grant liked to travel. When the news came that he had been appointed a cadet at the United States Military Academy, he was glad because of the journey to West Point but not because of any other opportunities it offered. He did not like West Point, and studied only to please his father. [Sidenote: =Fights under General Taylor=] [Sidenote: =Resigns and returns home=] After his graduation Grant fought in the Mexican War as lieutenant under General Taylor and later under General Scott. After peace was restored he served in California as a captain, but very soon resigned, and when the Civil War broke out in 1861 he was working as a clerk in his father's store at Galena, Illinois. [Illustration: THE BIRTHPLACE OF GENERAL GRANT, POINT PLEASANT, OHIO] [Sidenote: =Grant goes to Springfield=] [Sidenote: =His promotions=] =168. A Great General.= When Lincoln's call for seventy-five thousand men startled the country, Grant was made chairman of a meeting at Galena called to raise a company of soldiers. He then went to Springfield, where the governor set him to work drilling soldiers and getting them ready for the war. After a time he became colonel of a regiment. A further promotion followed which made him a brigadier-general in command of several regiments. Later still he rose to be major-general, in command of an army. [Illustration: ULYSSES S. GRANT _From a photograph taken in 1866 by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia_]