, 1864-03-27
The Grant Family-Ils Esrly Life-il1s Career
prior to the Rehelllou-Personal Traits
and Military Qualities.

tan intimate personal friend of Licut.
Gen. Grant" communicates 10 the Nltional
Inte!ligenefr biographical sketch Of that off,
Ger, which appears to be much more complete
than any that has appeared heretofore, Ow-
Ing to the great popular interest In Ill that
relates to the now actual commander Of our
armies, We make the following extracts from
this sketch:
THE GRANT FAMILY. ....
General Grant was born ut Point Pleasant,
C1eimont county. Ohio. on The asth day Of
lo1ty-sccond year. His father, Jesse r.
Grant, d tanner by trade, is q native Of Penn
6ylyania, aud Was born in Wcstmorc1and
county in 119i, and Is now living at Coying-
ton, Kentucky. The Grant family Is Of
Scotch extraction. In the carly part Of the
from Scotland tothe colonies. One settled
In Connecticut and the other IN New jersey.
From the one who located In the former
colony hive sprung the Grants Of the North,
and from the one IN the latter the Grants OF
the South.
The mother of Gen. Grant Was Hannah
Simpson, q woman remarkable for good
sense, attention to her domestic duties, aud
serious Christian character, blended With
easy manners. She Is tyre'of the mothers
who produced the heroes Of the Revolution.
In 1918 she removed, with her father. John
N'A~*AA-NA<AJ
sy1yania, where she was born, to Clermont
county, Ohio, and was welded In June, 1891,
With ler present husband. Ulysses is the
first child born Of that marriage, and the
"s." in his name stands for Simpson, the
name Of his mothers family. It is eiguif-
cant, however, TINT the initia!s HU. 81
stands for the United States and t'Uncondi- Il
tional Surrender" By which sobr1quet he Is
60 well and popular1T known In the army.
ULYSSES AT TWELVE.
In his boyhood he always exhibited bust
ness turn, and vas never without some par
tfcu1ar purpose in hand requiring RESPONSE
bility, perseverance, and zcal-serions enough
for one mature In years. An incident in
point will illustrate this.
At the age Of twelve lie aspired to the man-
agement Of his fathers draught team, and
Has entrusted with 1t for the purpose ofhaal-
be loaded With the aid Of levers and the usual
appliances By several stout men He came
with his team and found the logs, but not the
men. a boy Of more imaginative gcnius,
and Of equal but Of differently directed con-
trivauce might have laid down to listen OF
this hoy, who. unlike others, acted upon the
iden TINT where there was q will there
was way, and hcsitatcd not ut
the undertaking. Observing fallen tree,
having gradual upward slope, he unhitcsed
his horses, attached them to a log, drew 1t
end Of 1t up the inclined trnnk, higher than
the wagon track, and so rs to project few
| feet over. and thus continued to operate IN
| til he had brought several to this position.
| Next he backed the wagon under the pro-
jecting snds and finally, one b. one, hiteasd ed
fallen trunk on to his wagon, hitelcd up
again and returned with his load to his aston
ished father.
u1s MILITARY CAREER PRIOR TO THE REBEL
LION.
On the LIST Of July, 1859, Grant entered the
Academy IN elaes Of about one hundred,
and while ut Vest Point did not seem to be
particularly attracted By specu1ating philoso-
| ply, bat was remarkably fond Of the more
| solid aud concrete forms Of demonstrat1vc
mathematics aud Of all experimental etet.
cises. he was the only one that had not
many OF them had received collegiate educa-
| ton. Only thifty-nfne Of the members grad
mated, he graduating in the middle Of the
number, June 80, 1s43, and was soon after
attached to the Fourth regiment Of United
States infantry, Is brevet second lieutenant.
| The regiment was then stationed 1t Jefferson
barracks, near st. Lo1is. IL the same class
we find She names Of fifteen others who are
| Generals in the Union aud rebel armies.
In the summer Of 1874 the Fourth Ee1i-
ment was removed to Nateh!toches, Lou1sl-
sina, md in 1915 to Corpus Christi, where
| Lieutenant on the 30th OF September. He
served under Gen. Taylor, aud participated
| in the battles ct Palo, Alto, Resaca de IN Pal
| ma, and Monterey, aud with Gen. Scott rom
yern Cruz to the city Of Mexico. he vas
twice breyetted for gallant services, receiv-
ing the rank Of brevet captain for meEitor-
ous conduct on the 18th of September,
1877, at the stormsng Of Chcpultepec. de
was In all OF Taylor's and Scott's battles that
| 1t was possible for one man to be IN; ana IVES
eulocized By his commanding officers, as
NAV be seen by reference to their reports, ,o7d
| that Of the Secretary of War.
Gen Worth highly complimented Lieut..
Grant In his report. Major Francis Lee, CON-
pandiug the ..th infantry, in his report s,vs:
"Sccoud Lieut.. Grant behaved with distin-
cuished gnllantry on the 18th and 1ith.''
BreTet Col John Garland, commanding the
ist brigade ut Chnpultepec, says: II must not
omit to call attention to Lieut.. Graut, 4th In
fantry, who acquitted himself most nob1y
uron several occasions under my own obserT-.
atIon." In the sumo memorable engagement
Grant assisted Capt Horace BrooLs, I'd In
| fantry, to carry strong field work, and
and turn the enemy,a right. For these mert-
torlous services Congress awarded him 4
breyet captaincy in the regular army, which
IVES confirmed In January, 1856
After the conclusion Of the war the Eonrta
! Infantry returned to the Atlantic States. win
headquarters at Detroit aud Sacsctt' .Aarbor.
Grant was retained as Quazto1naster OF toat
! regiment.
! Soon after his return from Mexico, Ltent-
| Grant married Miss Dent of st Louis, No.,
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