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Ulysses Grant is born
Hiram Ulysses Grant is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. He later is called Ulysses Simpson Grant. -
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West Point
Ulysses Grant attends and graduates at the military academy at West Point -
Mexican War
Ulysses Grant is a captain in the Mexican war until 1848. -
Grant marries
Ulysses Grant marries Julia Boggs Dent in St. Louis Missouri. -
Frederck Dent Grant
The oldest son is born -
Ulysses S. Grant Jr.
The second child is born. -
Leaves the service to go home.
He resigned to avoid getting kicked out of the army. -
The first girl is born
Ellen Wrenshaw Grant (Nellie) is born -
Jesse Root Grant
The youngest child is born. -
First attack
Confederate troops attack Fort Sumter in South Carolina -
Goes back to the service.
Grant goes back to the army and is quickly promoted. -
Grant encounters the Confederate army in Mississippi
Grant sends William Sherman to capture the capital of Mississippi and he forces them to surrender. -
Vicksburg
General Pemberton surrenders at the Battle of Vicksburg. -
Chickamauga
The Union loses this battle. -
Lee surrenders.
Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appoattox courthouse. -
Promotion
He is promoted to General of the Army -
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Grant serves as Secretary of War
Grant serves as Secretary of War. -
Grant is put in office.
Ulysses S. Grant is voted in as president of the United States -
Re-election
Grant is re-elected as president -
Grant dies
Ulysses S. Grant Dies in Mount McGregor, New York of throat cancer.
