Ulysses_S_Grant

Ulysses S Grant Ulysses S. Grant 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 grant, war, family, time, general, ulysses, because, very, name, after, union, julia, fort, one, men, years, world, wife, west, troops, surrender, son, military, mexico, lee, grants, father, encyclopedia, during, book, army, about, until, two, st