Gen Ulysses Simpson Grant

Birth	27 APR 1822
Educ.	1843
History	8 MAY 1846		Palo Alto Second Lt
	9 MAY 1846		Resaca de la Palma
	SEP 1846		Monterrey
	MAR 1847		Siege of Veracruz
	18 APR 1847		Cerro Gordo
	20 AUG 1847		Churubusco
	8 SEP 1847		Molino del Rey
	SEP 1847		Battle for Mexico City First Lt
	SEP 1847		Chapultepec
Military			USA Army / General / US Civil War
History	6 Apr 1862		Shiloh General, USA
	29 APR 1862		Siege of Corinth
	18 May 1863		Siege of Vicksburg
	5 MAY 1864		the Wilderness
	8 May 1864		Spotsylvania Court House
	23 MAY 1864		North Anna
	May 1864		Totopotomoy Creek
	Jun 1864		Cold Harbor
	9 Jun 1864		Petersburg
	29 MAR 1865		Appomattox Campaign
	6 APR 1865		Sailors Creek
Election	1868		USA Presidential Election
Occup	1869-1877
Election	1872		USA Presidential Election
Death	23 JUL 1885		Cause: cancer
Grave

Grant is the best known of the presidents we are discussing. A military hero perhaps better known than any other, his name is a household word. Born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, on April 27, 1822, he came of a family of middle-class means. There is virtually nothing of religion or church affiliation in the Grant family history. Jesse Grant, his father, was not a church member and does not seem to have ever attended church. Grant received the best education Ohio had to offer and was later appointed to West Point. There he finished in the middle of his class, ahead of Jefferson Davis and well ahead of many who became well-known Civil War generals. 

Grant's first assignment was a post in Missouri outside of St. Louis. There he met a well-to-do... Read More