The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-01-18
Gen, orant,s Reoera.

Gen. Grants Record.
Ulysses Sydney Grant, born at Mount
1872.
Family removed to GeorgstowH Btoxn
county, Ohio, 1928.
Appointed cadet at West Poistby lsn. II
L. Harner, 1889. NJ
Graduated June 80, 1913, sta1dfng nuhsS6s
twenty-one in q class Of thirty-eisht -.
rers. Entered on the army roll 81 49,
second lieutenant, and assigned TO Fourth
InfAatkg On ths Aississippi traptiaF, ~ AM
psLumafy.
CommisstDnsda September 80, ls45, second
lieutenant 0f i6fsurry.
| Wsa4 j. Ta1lox's army 10 Nsxieo. md took
part In all the actions from Pafo Alto Msy :,
lS46, 20 1pmo0yxSptsahar IN teAeg 4 :
Transferred to SCOTS army, and took par
in the siege Of Vera Cruz.
| Assigned as Qusrtermastsr Of hie Regis
ment, April, 1847
In the battle of Moline del Rey, septembs.
ls, 1877 promoted on the 6eld, by Genera!
Scott, IL ffst liessehants Tor distinkl' d =
j Battle Of Chapultepec. September 10 lS47,
OFFICIALLY noticed for gsllan.ry By General
Worth. Is
Ensessd shs Gay Of Mexico With the army.
Sent to the Pacific coast A. the close OF ehs
war, aud assigned to duty in Oregon, with
headquarters at Fort Dallas.
Appointed Brevet Captain, 1850, for ser.
vices at Chapultspec.
Commissioned Captain, August, 1858.
Resigned July 81, 1871; spent b few years
lin business 10 st. LOUIS, and III farming
Removed to Galena, Illinois, and with his
father. established there the leather house Of
Grant & Son, 1859.
Appointed mastering officer and aid to
Governor Yates, of Illinois, Springfield
April. 1861, -.
| Commissioned Colonel Of Twepty-frst hi
neis three years. volunteers. June Is, 1851.
i Appointed Brigader General w President
Lincoln, August, 1861, commission dated
back to May and placed in conIpAad Of the
District of Cairo.
Occupied Paducah, Kentucky. By q sur
lprse movement, September 8, 1861.
Defeated jefferson Thompson at Green
Vile, October, 1G, 1861.
Battle Of Belmont, November !, 1851.
Moved up the Tennessee. and with Foofs
liron-elads, captured Fort Henry, February .,
/ 1852.
I Iavested Fort Donelson, February IL. aua
captured il February IL, BY iheuncoEdlionAl
snrre nder Of The enemy.
Promoted TO be Major General of Eolun-
teers. commission dating from the fall Of
| nonelson.
Advance against Corinth, March 1862.
Battle of Pittsbarg Landing, April aud s,
1862.
/ Placed ia command Of the Army of the
| Tennessee, April ia occupied Memphis
and Holly Springs in June; made Com
u1ander of the Department OF Tennessee in
JAY.
Began the campaign against Yieksburg. De-
ioi,sr -, 1862; csptared tbs city after .long
and bieody winter and spring campaign, July
!, 1858
Appointed Major General in the Regular
| Army.
| Severely injured BY being thrown from his
herse at New Orleans. September 1868; three
| Appointed to com nand OF the Militarv Dir
yissou Of tie Mississippi, October 1853, snd
announced headquarters in the field, arriving
Il Chattanooga, October %.
Battle of Missionary Ridge and Lookout
/ Mountain, November - and p, 1863, driy-
| ng Brasg from before Chattanooga.
! Appointed aud eonhrmediieutenant Gene
eal of the srmy, March 2, 1854, The grade
| hsing created for him.
| Arrived at Washington Harch g. 1884.
Assumed command OF all the Union arm les.
sdgnsrters with the arniescf The Potomac,
March Il, 1854
Crossed the Rapidan. May 4, 1854.
May 5. &, aud I, battles of the Wilderness
May II, ~ VII hghtit cut on this line II j,
takes all summer. =
May %, crossed the Pamnnky.
Crossed the James and placed Richmond
and Petersburg under siege June IA. Con
slant battles during The summer, fall and
winter.
Battle of Five Forks, March 81 aud
April J..
Occupation Of Richmond, April2
Sarrsnder IF iAa's armv. Aprii q, 1865.
.,na Substantial end OF The war
Appointed General OF the armies OF the
United States, July %, 1866, The grade being
fsatea sur him.
Secretary Of War al iaterim, Angus. IL.
1861.