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Born on April 27th, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio
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Was admitted into West Point Accademy in Ohio
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Left to fight the required 2 years of military service during the Mexican War
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Married Julia Dent
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Confederate troops attack Fort Sumter
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Grant Volunteers his services and trains the Illinois Volunteer Regiment
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Captures forts Henry and Donelson, and earns him the name "Unconditional Surrender" Grant along with others
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Takes Vicksburg by siege, splitting the Confederacy by putting the Mississippi under Union control.
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After the victories at Vicksburg a Fort Donelson and Henry, Grant was promoted to General over all Union Armies
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Grant tracks down Robert E. Lee and his army, inflicting unsustain able casualties and causing Lee to surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
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At age 46, Grant was elected President and was relected in 1872
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Back in the public, Grant new that he had to get a job, but he had had bad luck every other time before while looking for employment. He gets involved in a financial firm but went bankrupt.
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Grant discovers that he has throat cancer, since he has no money even though his military pension has been reinstated, he writes his memoirs and has his friend Mark Twain publish them, earning his family $450,000 before he dies on July 23rd, 1886
