Ulysses s grant childhood

President Ulysses S. Grant was the man who finally gave Abraham Lincoln what he needed in a general. Unlike George McClellan, George Meade, Ambrose Burnside, and others, Grant was not afraid to use his advantages.

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He saw success in the Vicksburg Campaign, which effectively cut the Confederacy in half, and when he was promoted to general in the east, he wasted little time in going to work on Lee.

As successful as he was in the Civil War, that is not how it always was for him. He had to earn his way to the top.

Biography

This biography comes from Stan Klos:

was born on April 27, 1822, in a two-room log cabin in Point Pleasant in southwestern Ohio. His father, Jesse Root Grant, born January 23, 1794, near Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was a tanner and made a great deal of money.

His mother, Hannah Simpson Grant, was born November 23, 1798, in Montgomery, Pennsylvania. He was born Hiram Ulysse