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Birth
Hiram Ulysses Grant. Point Pleasant, Ohio -
Attends subscription schools.
In Georgetown, Ohio and works on the family farm. He loves horses but hates the tan yard. -
Departs for the U.S Military Academy
at West Poin New York. His name is registered as Ulysses S. Grant, a name he will continue to use for the rest of his life. Grant spends the next four years at this school on the Hudson as a Cadet. -
Spends his furlough with his family.
In Bethel Ohio. Grant later wrote, "Those ten weeks were shorter than one week at West Point." -
Grant Graduates.
He graduates from West Point and is commissioned a brevet second Lieutenant. He is assigned to the Fourth Infantry in St. Louis, Jefferson Barracks. He meets Julia, his future wife, in February, 1844. -
Grant fights in the Mexican War.
He fights as a quartermaster. 1846-1848 -
Assigned to Sackets Harbor, New York and Detroit, Michigan.
Following his honeymoon.Though blissfully happy in his private life, he is bored with the tedium of the peacetime army. He enjoys playing cards, accompanying Julia to dances and racing his mare, Cicotte. -
Humboldt Bay California
He is sent here. The next two years are ones of lonesome reflection for the Captain, who desperately misses his family. Being separated from Julia wreaks havoc on his psyche. -
Near St. Louis.
He works a 60-acre farm. He builds a home, sells cordwood and faces a bleak financial future. -
Returns to Missouri.
After resigning his commission. -
Enters Real Estate business.
With Julia's cousin. He proves incapable of collecting rents and is frequently late to work. Grant was never cut out to be a business man. -
Galena, Illinois.
Moves heare and accepts a clerkship at his father's leather store at $800 a year. He lives in a comfortable, snug house on a hill, fronting a cemetery. -
Colonel
Appointed a Colonel of the 21st Illinois Infantry. -
Grant a Brigadier General
Commission signed by President Lincoln making Grant a Brigadier General of Volunteers. -
The Battle of Belmont,
Union forces raid the Confederate camp, but fall back when they counterattack. Grant's horse is shot from under him in the fight. -
Grant takes Fort Donelson
Tennessee, the first Union victory of strategic importance in the war. He becomes nationally famous with his dispatch, "No terms except immediate and unconditional surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works." The jealous General Henry Halleck schemes behind Grant's back and spreads malicious and false rumors that Grant has "resumed his former bad habits." -
Major General
Grant receives his two star rank of Major General of Volunteers -
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Battle of Shiloh
Grant's iron will and stubbornness resist disaster and the Union holds the field on the second day. -
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Grand Strategy on Vicksburg
After an Unsuccessful attempt to move around Vicksburg MIssissippi. Grant implements his grand strategy in taking Vicksburg by moving between two wings of the enemy and routing them both. In five days, he fights and defeats the enemy at Jackson, Champion Hill and Big Black River -
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Two frontal assaults
Grant attempts two frontal assaults upon Vicksburg, but both are repelled. The Union forces settle down to a siege. -
Surrender of Vicksburg
Grant as a General, one of greatest military campaigns in history. -
Takes Command Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Battle of Chattanooga
The Confederates are forced to retreat into Tennessee. -
Lieutenant General.
Grant receives his commission as Lieutenant General from Lincoln and on March 12, he is appointed General in Chief of all U.S. armies. -
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The Battle of the Wilderness
. The two titans of the war, Grant and Lee, finally face each other. The result is a draw, with Union forces losing two times as many men as Lee. -
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Spottsylvania Campaign
Meets Lee again on the battle field. -
Appomattox, Virginia
In the Mclean House in Appomattox Lee surrenders to Grant. Grant remains very civil.Very Cool... -
General
Congress establishes a new rank of "General" for Grant making him the first four star General in U. S. history. -
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President of the United States of America
Two Terms -
Brokerage firm Fails
The firm of Grant and Wards fails on Wall Street. Losin the General and his families fortune. -
Illness
Grant's illness of the throat is diagnosed as cancer. The cancer spreads from this poin on. Grant and his family move to Mt. McGregor, New York (advised by doctors because of the cooler climate)Grant goes down to 120 pounds and is so weak he sometimes falls from his chair, but gallantly hides his suffering from his family. -
Death
Mount McGregor, Saratoga Springs, New York. -
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The Battle of Cold Harbor.