Ulysses S. Grant Research Paper

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States. He was born on April 27, 1882 in Point Pleasant, OH. His real name is Hiram Ulysses Grant. His middle name was actually "Ulysses" and he said that the "S" in his name stood for nothing. His father was Jesse Root Grant, born January 23, 1794, by Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He worked as a tanner and was rich. Jesse died on June 29, 1873 in Covington, Kentucky at 79 years old. Grant’s mom was Hannah Simpson Grant, born November 23, 1798, in Montgomery, Pennsylvania. She died in Jersey City, New Jersey, on May 11, 1883, at the age of 84.
On August 22, 1848, he married Julia Boggs Dent in St. Louis, Missouri. He was 26 and she was 22. They had four children: Fredrick Dent Grant,

Nellie Grant, Jesse Root Grant, and Ulysses S. Grant Jr.
In May, 1839, Grant leaves Ohio for the U. S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. His name was registered as Ulysses S. Grant, a name he will use for the rest of his life. Grant spends the next four years at this school at Hudson as a Cadet. On July, 1843, Grant graduates from West Point and is commissioned as a brevet’s second Lieutenant. He is assigned to the Fourth Infantry in St. Louis, Jefferson Barracks. He met Julia, his future wife, in February, 1844.
In 1846-1848, Grant fights in his first war, The Mexican War, as a Quartermaster. In 1848-1852 Grant was assigned to Sackets Harbor, New York and Detroit, Michigan. Between the years of 1852-1854, he was moved as a Captain to Humboldt Bay, California. In August of 1854, he asked to resign from Captain. After coming back home, he gets into the real estate business. After being out of the army for seven years, he became a Colonel of the 21st Infantry in Illinois.
In August of 1861, Abraham Lincoln made Grant a Brigadier General of Volunteers.