General Ulysses S. Grant

Joseph Pavelick

Childhood

• Born April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio • Original name was Hiram Ulysses Grant• Father: Jesse Root Grant• Mother: Hannah Simpson Grant• Took care of the farm

West Point

• Went when he was 17• Did not care for fighting. He liked math

Mexican War

• Order to Jefferson barracks near, St. Louis, Mo• Became acquainted with nearly all the

officers, especially Robert E. Lee• He was in nearly every battle• He came out of the war as a Brevet Captain

He gets Married

• While in the army he meant Julia Dent• She was a slave-owners daughter• Within three months he proposed to her• Got married August 22, 1848• His first child was Fredrick Dent Grant, born

1850

Civil War

• He got volunteers together in Springfield first after Fort Sumter

• After a little bit he went home• Weeks later he got a telegraph from the

governor saying they needed him back• He was promoted to a colonel

Civil War

• After a few fights he had 20,000 men cause of all the volunteers he was getting

• In 1862 he took Fort Henry• Also took Fort Donelson on the Cumberland

River

Civil War

• Tried to win the Mississippi Valley to split the Confederates in two

• First success was the battle of Shiloh

Civil War

• Won the battle at Fort Vicksburg and Made Grant look really good

• They surrendered on July 4, 1863, a day after Gettysburg

• Five days later, Port Hudson fell as well

Civil War

• Grant was given supreme command of all the armies in the West

• Lincoln asked rant to come to Washington to fight against Robert E. Lee

• Grant was appointed Lieutenant General commanding all the federal armies

Civil war

• On May 4, 1864, he crossed the Rapidan • Lee spotted him and attacked him• Grant suffered appalling losses• But lee was amazed by Grant’s persistance

Civil War

• The next year, in April Grant took Richmond, VA

• The next week President Lincoln was assasinated

Presidency

• In 1866, Congress made him full general, a title not used since George Washington

• Grant received 214 electoral college votes in the election

Presidency

• There were problems such as the war brought great poverty to the south

• There were also a lot of scandals that hurt Grant’s reputation, but grant did not let them bother him

His Death

• He died July 23, 1885• He died of cancer