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He resigned in 1854 so he wouldn't be drummed out of service.
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On May 1 1863 Grant's army crossed the mississippi river at the battle of Port Gibson
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He won at Vicksburg Mississippi which made Lincoln put him in command of all the Union troops.
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Grant lay siege on Vicksburg after 46 days of fighting.
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In March Lincoln gave Grant his next rank Luntenint General.
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Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War hero and Republican candidate, is inaugurated as the eighteenth President of the United States
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On May 10, 1869, the transcontinental railroad was completed when a ceremonial golden spike was driven into the place where the two railroads met. The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads joined the railroad together in Promontory Point, Utah. Celebrations and special addresses took place across the nation after a telegraph message announced the event to the world.
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The “Black Friday” financial panic takes place in New York City. The panic results from the efforts of two railroad entrepreneurs, Jay Gould and James Fisk, Jr., to corner the gold market. Gould and Fisk, along with President Grant's brother-in-law, frame their argument by claiming that if the government refrains from selling gold, its value will increase and improve depressed farm prices. A suspicious Grant finally orders a large sale of $4 million in gold, ruining many speculators.
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Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins. It will be the longest suspension bridge in the world when completed thirteen years later
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Congress makes it a federal crime to deprive anyone of his civil or political rights by interfering with the right to vote. It is the first of three such enforcement acts the legislature will pass
