The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-01-11
General Grant.

The following interesting facts are taken
from Colonel Adam Badeau S Military Ca
recr of General Grant, soon to be pub
lishcd:
Hiram Ulysses Grant was born on the eth
of April, 1872, at Point Pleasant, Clermont
| county, Ohio. His father was Of Scotch
descent, and dealer in leather. Ulysses
| was the eldest of six children. lie entered
the Military Academy at West Point ut the
age Of seventeen, the Congressman who pro
| ;ured his appoint giving his name by mis-
| take as Ulysses S. Grant. Simpson was the
| maiden name Of his mother, and was also
borne by one of his younger brothers; this
! doubtless occasioned the error Young
| Grant applied to the authorities at West
| Point and the Secretary Of War to have the
hlunder corrected, but the request was IN.
| noticed his comrades at once adopted the
| initial T. S. in his behalf and christened
| aim Uncle Sam-a nickname he never lost
in the army; and when he graduated in
1913. twenty first in class Of thirty. nine,
| his commission of brevet second lieutenant,
md his diploma both styled him Ulysses s.
| Grant. by which name he has since been
known.
Ills regiment was the 4th infantry: he re-
nalned in the army eleven years as en-
gagged in every battle Of the Mex a war,
except Buena Vista, receiving brevets
tor galantry, aud was atterward stationed
ut various posts on the Canadian frontier,
and finally in California and Oregon. In
1913 he married Julia L. Dent eldest daugh'
ter of Frederick Dent, Il merchant of ST.
Louis. and in 1854 having reached the
grade of captain, he resigned his commits
sion in the army, and removed to Gravel.
near St. Louis, where he owned and worked
farm Afterwards, in 1850, lie entered
he leather trade, with his father and broth
err, in Gnlena, Illinois.
Thus, when the civil war broke out, Grant
was private citizen, earning his broad in
an insignificant inland town. He was OF
simple habits and tastes, without influence.
and unambi,ious. Having never beer
brought in contact with men Of eminencc
he had no personal knowledge Of great at
fairs. He had never commanded more than
a company of soldiers and, although he had
served under Scott and Taylor, it was Us II
iubal,ern and without any opportunity OF
intercourse with those commanders.
He had never voted for President bur
once; he knew no politicians. for his &c
qnaintpnce was limited to army officers and
Western traders; even in the town whore he
lived he had not met the member Of Con
gress who represented The district for nine
successive years, and who ctterward became
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w wreh Of his fatbcr md brother where
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