Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant rose to command all the Federal armies in the Civil War and lead
them to victory. He was respected so much that he went on to be president of the United
States for two terms. His time of glory didn't last forever though, he developed cancer and
died bankrupt.
Ulysses Hiram Grant was born April 27, 1822, in a two room frame house
at Point Pleasant, Ohio(Ulysses S. Grant 1). His father, Jesse Root Grant, was foreman in
a tannery and a farmer. His mother, Hannah Simpson Grant, was a hard working frontier
woman. When Ulysses was a year old, the family moved to Georgetown. There his father
bought a farm, built a house, and set up his own tannery. Jesse and Hannah had five more
children there, two boys and three girls(Ulysses S. Grant 1).
Grant love horses and learned to manage them at an early age. When he was seven
or eight he could drive a team and began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.
From that point on until he reached seventeen, Grant did all the work done with horses;
such as breaking up the land, furrowing, plowing corn, bringing in the crops when
harvested, and hauling wood(Ulysses S. Grant 1). Three months each winter when work
was minimized Grant went to a one room schoolhouse, and that's how he was educated
until he went to West Point at age seventeen.
When Grant turned seventeen, his father got him an appointment to the United
States Military Academy at West Point. The congressman who made the appointm...

Ulysses S. Grant

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