Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, a town on the Ohio River near Cincinatti. In 1823, the Grant family moved to Georgetown, Ohio, where Ulysses attended school until he was 14. He then spent one year at an acadamy in Maysville, Kentucky and in 1838 he entered an academy in Ripley, Ohio. In 1839, Ulysses's father, Jesse, found out that a neighbor's son had been dismissed from West Point. Jesse asked his congressman to appoint Ulysses as a replacement, and the congressman agreed. Grant was an average student at West Point, although he did rank high in mathematics and horsemanship. He graduated from West Point on July 1, 1843 and was promoted in the Army to second lieutenant of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, stationed near St. Louis. There he met Julia Dent, the sister o....

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