Hiram Ulysses Grant was the first-born child of Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant. He was born on April 27, l822 in a cabin in Point Pleasant, Ohio then his family moved to Georgetown, Ohio. Ulysses had 2 brothers and 3 sisters. .
As a child Ulysses went to school and worked on the family farm. He liked working with horses and the other farm animals He learned to ride a horse about the time he learned to walk. His father was a tanner, but Ulysses did not like working at his tannery. As a boy Ulysses was very hard working, but not always to clever in business matters. .
Ulysses went to school in Georgetown until he was 14 years old. In l983 he went to an academy for l year in nearby Ripley, Ohio. In 1839 his father heard of a neighbor's son that had been dismissed from the U.S. Military Academy and asked his congressman to help to get an appointment for Ulysses in the neighbors place. The congressman made a mistake in Grant's name. He thought Ulysses was his first name and his middle name was his mother's family name Simpson. His appointment to school was for Ulysses S. Grant. He was unable to change his name after that or he would have lost that appointment. He would have had to petition in his real name then wait until he could be accepted again. Rather than go through that he left it as the congressmen had it. He really did not mind the changed name because he had thought he might be teased about his real initials, "H.U.G.". Grant was an average student at the U. S. Military Academy (West Point). He really did not like military life, but he knew that was his only chance for a higher education. He spent a lot of time reading novels instead of studying. He did well in mathematics and did very good in horsemanship. He thought he would leave the military one-day and then he wanted to teach math at a college. He ranked 21 in a class of 39 students.
After graduation he had requested an appointment to the Calvary, but there were no openings and he was assigned to the 4th Infantry as a second lieutenant.
Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) Eighteenth president of the United States of America, he was born at Point Pleasant, Ohio and died at New York; he graduated at West Point Military Academy, and participated to some point in the Mexican-American war. ... Ulysses S. ... In the western theater Ulysses S. ... On April 9, 1865, Ulysses S. ... The impact that Ulysses S. ...
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States of America. Before he became President, he rose to fame as a Union general during America's Civil War. Grant began as a Colonel when the war started in 1861, became a Major General in 1862, and was promoted to Lieutenant General in 1864...
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Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. ... Union General Ulysses S. ... Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885), commanded the Union armies at the end of the Civil War in 1865. ... Grant's enemies called him a poor president. ...
The leader of the Army of Tennessee, Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, would later write that, "Shiloh was the severest battle fought at the West during the war" (Grant, 355-356). ... General Henry Wager Halleck, commander of the Union forces in the West, gave orders to General Ulysses S. Grant to assemble his forces of about 35,000 men at Pittsburg Landing, about 35 miles northeast of Corinth. ... Grant led a very aggressive counter-attack against Beauregard's Rebels. ...
In 1870 Benjamin Butler, a Radical Republican and a Congressman, and others, urged President Ulysses S. Grant to take some sort of governmental action against the KKK. Ulysses took action. ... Ulysses S. ... Granted they have not always had the great power of the 1920's, they have still been a constant thought in our heads. ...
Ullysses S. Grant Ulysses Simpson Grant served with Zachary Taylor's army at Monterey during the Mexican war. ... The following year Lee led his army against a series of bloody attacks against the Northern Army commanded by Ulysses S. Grant. ... Lincoln gave command to Ulysses Grant during the Civil War. ...
