YOUTH 11 



advantage to him. At the time of his graduation the cause 

 of the Union was under a dark cloud. During the last of 

 June, 1862, even the President of the United States did 

 not know for days where the Army of the Potomac was. 

 The gloom was deep but the people were not discouraged. 

 At the request of the governors of eighteen loyal states 

 President Lincoln, on July 2, called out three hundred 

 thousand men for three years, and on August 4 ordered 

 a draft for three hundred thousand men for nine months. 



