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	MSN Encarta - Ulysses S. Grant
		Ulysses Simpson Grant was the son of a frontier family.
		He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in a two-room cabin in Point Pleasant in southwestern Ohio.
		Grant graduated in 1843 with a barely average scholarship record, ranking 21st in a class of 39.
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	President Grant
		Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding while driving a horse and buggy in Washington, DC.
		Although Grant had 15 years in the regular military, his initial offer to serve in the Civil War was overlooked by the War Department.
		Ulysses Grant was elected to two terms 1868, 1872.
	www.classroomhelp.com /lessons/Presidents/grant.html (490 words)

	Hiram Ulysses Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Grants named their baby son Hiram Ulysses and moved soon afterward a short distance to the town of Georgetown, Ohio, where Hiram Ulysses lived for the first 16 years of his life.
		Ulysses himself was throughout his life a quiet man, calm during crises, with a manner of unbuttoned informality.
		Ulysses spent his 16th year at a boarding school in Maysville, KY. By the time he returned home, his father had decided to send him to school at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY., and had secured an appointment there with the help of a political acquaintance.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /OfficersAndEnlistedMen/hiramulyssesgrant.html (384 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant
		In 1861, Grant was appointed as a colonel of the Illinois Volunteers.
		Grant’s most important victory came in July 1863 with the capture of Vicksburg, a key point on the Mississippi River, which enabled the Union to cut the Confederacy in half.
		In 1867, Grant was appointed the interim secretary of war by Andrew Johnson, a move that sparked a confrontation involving Edwin M. Stanton, Congress and the Tenure of Office Act.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h102.html (971 words)

	History: Ulysses S. Grant: The Hero of the Civil War
		Grant directed Sherman to drive through the South while he used the Army of the Potomac to pin down General Lee's Army.
		As Sherman and Grant moved farther into the Confederate strongholds, it became clear that the final battles of the Civil War were at hand.
		Grant wrote generous terms of surrender that helped to begin the process of uniting the nation again.
	www.cr.nps.gov /logcabin/html/usg2.html (548 words)

	News of Ulysses Grant's Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Grant sat by the General the other members of the family kept either in the other parts of the room or on the porch, almost within whispering call.
		A Brooklyn Grant Army Post, which Gen. Grant last visited and which is to bear his name, sent a request to be allowed to act as guard of honor from this place to the place of burial.
		Grant should be buried by his side, and recently suggested the Soldiers' Home at Washington for their final resting place.
	starship.python.net /crew/manus/Presidents/usg/usgobit.html (9915 words)

	'Ulysses S. Grant' (washingtonpost.com)
		This may have something to do with the war in Iraq; Grant's blunt, brutal pursuit of "unconditional surrender" and his understanding that war is not a halfway business look rather good to many who question the strategy and commitment of the present military leadership and the administration to whom it is accountable.
		Grant understood how to get men to do what he wanted them to do, and this quality led him to the victories that propelled him to his early fame.
		Grant [was] an authentic national hero, he had become a hero of a particular kind, one whose reputation transcended flaws and mistakes in judgment and failures as president."
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A27478-2004Sep16.html (950 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant
		President Abraham Lincoln described Grant's campaign as "one of the most brilliant in the world." He wrote to Grant that he had disagreed with Grant's tactics but added: "I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." Grant was promoted to the rank of major general.
		Lincoln commented that "General Grant is a copious worker, and fighter, but a very meagre writer, or telegrapher." Despite his doubts about Grant, in March, 1864, he was named lieutenant general and the commander of the Union Army.
		Grant never cared a damn about what was going on behind the enemy's lines, but it often scared me like the devil." He admitted, and justly so, that some of Grant's successes were owing to this very fact, but also some of his most conspicuous failures.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAgrantU.htm (4871 words)

	Ulysses Simpson Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ulysses Simpson Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 22, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, where his father worked as a tanner.
		In 1863, Grant secured the surrender of Vicksburg by crossing the Mississippi from the Arkansas side and working his was back up the Mississippi side through a series of battles at Jackson, Champion Hill, and Big Black River Bridge, and laying siege to the city.
		In 1868, Grant was elected President of the United States on the Republican ticket and served two terms noted for slack administration and corruption.
	ehistory.osu.edu /uscw/features/people/bio.cfm?PID=35 (717 words)

	Grant History One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Grant was generally an average student, but he excelled in mathematics and horsemanship.
		Grant was opposed to the Mexican War, later calling it "one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation," but felt at the time he should serve under his flag rather than resign from the army.
		Grant was given the Brevet (temporary) ranks of First Lieutenant and Captain respectively for his gallantry at Molino del Rey and the storming of Chapultepec.
	www.css.edu /usgrant/granthist1.html (985 words)

	OHS Places/Grant Schoolhouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in Point Pleasant in April 1822.
		Ulysses worked in his father's tannery and, from the ages of about six to thirteen, he attended classes in the little schoolhouse on Water Street.
		Grant Schoolhouse is located at 508 South Water Street, two blocks south of State Route 125, in Georgetown, Ohio.
	www.ohiohistory.org /places/grantsch (173 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Grant was one of three presidents to graduate from a military academy: West Point.
		Grant was the first president to have both parents alive when he took office.
		Grant was the second man in American history to be a Lieutenant General.
	www.geocities.com /presfacts/grant.html (252 words)

	Ulysses Simpson Grant Biography
		The latter was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Ohio but through confusion at West Point he became Ulysses Simpson Grant.
		During Andrew Johnson's fight with the Radical Republicans in Congress Grant was in an awkward position.
		Denied renomination in 1880, he was involved in a number of unsuccessful ventures, the worst of which-in the brokerage firm of Grant and Ward-wiped him out.
	www.civilwarhome.com /grantbio.htm (1088 words)

	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Grant was given a job that no one else would take; he was to make a disciplined fighting unit out of a rebellious Illinois volunteer regiment that no one had been able to tame.
		Grant drilled the men nearly to death, led them in several successful attacks against Confederate guerrilla bands, and was promoted to brigadier general.
		Grant was deeply haunted by the failures of his early life, and he was loyal out of all proportion to anyone who had ever been nice to him.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/ulyssessgrant (894 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Ulysses S. Grant : Soldier & President (Modern Library Paperbacks) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Grant emerges in this nuanced portrait as a quintessential American: he is depicted as a restless rover perpetually in search of "movement, drama, adventure." Firmly situated in his time, he nonetheless seems a strikingly modern man. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
		Grant's administration was not any more corrupt than the ones that succeeded it, but the fact that it was more corrupt than the ones that preceded it has caused it to be seen as extraordinarily scandalous.
		Ulysses S. Grant is the key: he saved the Union, he fought for the rights of the freedmen during Reconstruction, he was always honest-though he did make his share of mistakes - and when he erred, he accepted the responsibility for his mistakes.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/037575220X?v=glance (3121 words)

	President Ulysses Grant: Health & Medical History
		According to one historian, Grant's "peace of mind required that he be shielded from the complicated side of anything" [4a].
		During the first Battle of the Wilderness, Grant was seen to smoke 20 cigars from sunup to sundown [3a].
		Grant was also a sixth cousin once removed of Grover Cleveland [7b].
	www.doctorzebra.com /prez/g18.htm (524 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant Collection at Bartleby.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(Grant, Ulysses Simpson) 1822–85, commander in chief of the Union army in the Civil War and 18th President (1869–77) of the United States, b.
		He was originally named Hiram Ulysses Grant.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
		Among the greatest of military memoirs, Grant wrote to the last month of life to restore his family fortunes.
	www.bartleby.com /people/Grant-Ul.html (110 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant Civil War General American President
		Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner.
		Grant whipped it into shape and by September 1861 he had risen to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers.
		Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters is published on acid free paper to insure longevity and is a wonderful addition to any academic, personal or public library collection.
	www.americancivilwar.com /north/grant.html (1367 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Grant's letters show him to have been a tremendously gentle, decent man, with a great sense of humor and profound love in his heart for his wife and family.
		If Grant could be said to possess any weakness that influenced his accounts, it would be an excessive modesty similar to that which confined him to wearing a private's uniform (he had a lifelong fear of being castigated for looking too good in uniform).
		Grant's accounts of Cold Harbor and Shiloh are somewhat different then James McPherson and Shelby Foote would have you believe, and in fact in describing his actions at Shiloh he almost contradicts himself.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0940450585?v=glance (2905 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant
		Grant's popularity inevitably led to his election to the presidency in 1868.
		Grant posed for this portrait shortly after he returned from a triumphant world tour following his presidency.
		Among the most cooperative was Grant, who gave Balling repeated opportunities to draw studies of him as he rode with staff officers to survey the situation in the forward lines.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/travpres/grants.htm (342 words)

	Grant County, KS
		The Cimarron cutoff on the Santa Fe trail passed through Grant County, turned south and crossed the path of modern highway US 160 just east of Ulysses.
		The county was named for Ulysses Grant, Union general in the Civil War and president of the United States.
		The Santa Fe Trail and Wagon Bed Springs (a National Historical Landmark) are 15 miles south of Ulysses on K-25.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /counties/GT (483 words)

	Grant Home
		Grant was a clerk in name only; he spent considerable time away from the store, "travelling through the Northwest considerably during the winter of 1860-61.
		April 27, 1822: Hiram Ulysses Grant born at Point Pleasant, Ohio and was the son of Jesse and Hannah Grant.
		Ulysses was the oldest of six children having three sisters and two brothers.
	www.granthome.com /grant_home.htm (1126 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Grant ran the gauntlet riding on the side of his horse with one foot hooked on the cantle of the saddle and an arm around the neck of his horse.
		Grant was breakfasting some miles away at Savannah, preparing to meet additional troops scheduled to arrive with General Don Carlos Buell, when he heard the firing and hurried to the front.
		Grant's victory at the battle of Port Gibson gave the Union forces a firm footing in Mississippi and compelled the abandonment of the fortifications at Grand Gulf (May 3).
	www.lib.siu.edu /projects/usgrant/grant2.htm (9324 words)

	OHS Places/Grant Birthplace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ulysses S. Grant was born 27 April 1822 in picturesque Point Pleasant near the mouth of Big Indian Creek at the Ohio River.
		At one time the birthplace made an extensive tour of the United States on a railroad flatcar and was also temporarily displayed on the Ohio State fairgrounds.
		Grant Birthplace is in Point Pleasant, in Clermont County, just off of U.S. Route 52 about five miles east of New Richmond.
	www.ohiohistory.org /places/grantbir (122 words)

	Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and his participation in the American Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Ohio in 1822 this future President of the United States became Ulysses S. Grant when a clerk at West Point wrote down his name wrong.
		Grant served as regimental quartermaster during most of the Mexican War, but frequently led a company in combat.
		In 1868 Grant was swept into the presidency by his success in the war.
	www.swcivilwar.com /grant.html (939 words)

	Illinois Historic Preservation Agency - Galena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Julia Grant recalled that "there was a tremendous and enthusiastic outpouring of people to welcome him....After a glorious triumphal ride around the hills and valleys, so brilliant with smiles and flowers, we were conducted to a lovely villa exquisitely furnished with everything good taste could desire."
		Grant appointed general of the armies of the U.S. November 3,1868.
		This grand home was presented to Grant by a group of Galena citizens on August 18, 1865, when he returned as the victorious Civil War General.
	www.state.il.us /HPA/hs/Galena.htm (952 words)

	Ulysses, KS
		Ulysses is the county seat of Grant County and is located near the center of the county. It's the largest town in a six county region and serves as a regional shopping area.
		The town (and Grant County) was named for Ulysses Grant (1822-1885), Union general in the Civil War and 18th president of the United States. ; There is also a Ulysses in Nebraska, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Idaho; the one in Kansas is the largest.
		Downtown Ulysses is big enough to provide a variety of shopping opportunities. It's fun to go to an active and alive downtown.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /towns/Ulysses (278 words)

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