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General Grant Commission Commemorative

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In 1886, surviving veterans of the 21st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry marked the spot where their Colonel Ulysses S. Grant received his commission as general in 1861 and, parting from his regiment, entered on his career of victory, remembered with the words “Let Us Have Peace.”
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