The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-06-18
[WhOle No. 1873.
GeneFaI GFant's ReeOrd.


Ulysses Sidney Grant, born at Mount
Pleasant, ClermOnt county, Ohio,
April, 1922.
Family removed to Georgetown,
Brown county, Ohio, 1923.
Appointed cadet at West Point, by
Hon. T. l.. Hamer, 1889.
Graduated June 30, 1913, standing
number tWenty-ORe in a class Of thirty
eight members. D. Entered on the army
rolls as Brsvet Second Lieutenant,
and assigned to 4th Infantry, on the
Missouri frontier, as a supernumerary.
Commissioned September 30, 1845,
Second Lieutenant of Infantry.
Went in TaylOr's army to Mexico,
and took part in all the actions from
PalO Alto, May 8, 1916.
Transferred to SCOTS army, and
took part in the siege of Vera Cruz.
Assigned as QuartermaSter Of his
regiment, April, 1847.
In the battle Of MOIinO del Rey,
September 8, 1917, promoted on the
field, by General Scott, to First Lieu
tenant, for distinguished gaIlantry.
Battle Of Chapultepec, September Is,
1847, officially noticed for his gallantry
by General Worth.
Entered the City of Mexico with
the army.
Sent to the Pacific coast at the close
of the war, and assigned to duty in
Oregon, with headquarters at Fort
Dallas.
Appointed Brevet Captain, 1859, for
service, at Chapultepec.
Commissioned Captain, August, '63.
Resigned July 81, 1854 spent a
few years in business in st. Louis, and
in farming.
Removed to GaIena, H., and with
his father established there the leather
house Of Grant & Son, 1859.
Appointed mastering officer and Aid
to Governor Yates, Of Illinois, Spring
field, 1851.
Commissioned Colonel of 23d Illinois
(three years) volunteers, June Is, 1861. q
Appointed Brigadier General by
President Lincoln, August, 1861 (eOm-
mission dated back to May ID, and
placed in command of the District Of
Cairo.
Occupied Paducah, KY, by a sur
prise movement, September 6, 1861.
Defeated JEFF. Thompson at Green
vile, October Is, 1861.
Battle Of Belmont, November q,
1851.
Moved up the Tennessee, and, with
Foote'S irOn-clads. captured Fort Hem
ry, February 6, 1862.
Invested Fort DOnelsOn, February
! Il, and captured it February 16, by the
unconditional surrender Of the enemy.
Promoted to be Major General Of
volunteers, commission dating from
the fall of Fort DOnelsOn.
Advanced against COrinth, March,
l1S62.
Battle of Pittsburg Landing, April
| Z and s, 1862.
Placed in command Of the Army
of the Tennessee, April 13 ; occupied
Memphis and Holly Springs in Jun6
made commander Of the Department
of the Tennessee in July.
Began the campaign against Vicks-
burg, October %, 1862; captured the
lefty after a long and bloody winter and
spring campaign, July 4, 1868.
Appointed Major General in the
regular army.
Severely injured by being thrown
from his horse at New Orleans, SePtem-
Der, 1868 three ribs broken.
Appointed to command Of the Mill
tary Division of the Mississippi, Oc-
tOber, 1868; and announced head
quarters in the field, arriving at Chat
tanOOga, October %; made Lieutenant
General of the Army, March 2, 1864,
the grade being created for him.
Arrived at Washington, March 8,
1864.
Assumed command of the Union
armies, headquarters with the Army
of the Potomac, March II, 1864.
Crossed the Rapidan May 3, 1864,
May 5, 6, and z, battles Of the Viii
derness.
May II, "I shall fight it out on this
line If it takes all summer"
May %, crossed the Pamunkey.
OIOooGu LAlG- OttALlto eauu BlttCCu -sACAL-
mOnd and Petersburg under siege,
Juhe Il. Constant battles during the
summer, fall and winter.
Began the final campaign Of the war
March 25, 1865.
Battle of Five Oaks, March 81 and
April 1.
Occupation Of Richmond, April 2.
Surrender of Lees army, April 9,
/ 1865, and substantial end of the war.
Appointed General Of armies Of the
United States, July %, 1866, the grade
being created for him.
Secretary Of War ad interim, August
I12, 1867.
May 21,1S68, unanimously chosen
by the Republican National COnven-
ton at Chicago, as candidate for Presi-
dent of the United States.