The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-03-05
General Grants Record,


Pleasant, Clermont county, Ohio, April
27, 1922.
Family removed to Georgetown, Brown
county, Ohio, 1928
Appointed cadet at West Post by Hon.
I. l.. Harner, 1889.
Graduated June 80, 1S43, standing
number twenty-one in a class of thirty
one members. Entered on the army
rolls as Brevet Second Lieutenant, and
assigned to the 4th infantry, on the Mis-
souri, frontier, as a supernumerary.
Commissioned September 80, 1915,
Second Lieutenant of Infantry.
Went in Taylor's army to Mexico, and
took part in all the actions from Palo
Alto, May 8, 1916, to Montery, Septem-
Der %, 1916
Transferred to Scott's army, and took
part in the siege of Vera Cruz.
Assigned as quartermaster of his regi-
ment, April, 1S47.
In the battle of Molino del Rey, Sep
tember 8, 1917, promoted on the field,
by General Scott, to First Lieutenant,
for distinguished gallantry.
Battle of Chepultepec, September l3,
1917, officially noted for gallantry by
General Worth
Entered the city of Mexico with the
army.
Sent to the Pacific coast at the close Of
the war, and asst igned to duty in Oregon,
with headquarters at Fort Dallas.
Appointed Brevet Captain, 1850, for
services at Chepultepec.
Commissioned Captain, August, 1858.
Resigned July 81, 1855; spent few
years in business at St. Louis, and in
farming.
Removed to Galena, H., 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 the 2lst Illi-
nois (three years. volunteers, June 15,
1861.
Appointed Brigadier General by Presi-
dent Lincoln, August, 1861 Commission
dated back to May y, and placed in
command of the District of Cairo.
Occupied Paducah, KY, by surprise
movement, September 6, 1861,
Moved up the Tennessee, and with
Foote's iron clads, captured Fort Henry,
Feb. 6, 1862.
Invested Fort Donelson, Feb. II, and
it Feb. l6, by the unconditional
surrender of the enemy.
Promoted to be Major General of vol
unteers, commission dated from the fall
of Donelson
Advance against Corinth, March, 1862.
Battle of Pittsburg Landing, April I
and 8, 1862.
Placed in command Of the Army of
the Tennessee, April l3; occupied Mem
phis and Holy Springs in June; made
Commander of the Department of Ten
nessee in July.
Began the campaign against Vicksburg,
October 26, 1867; captured the city after
a long and bloody winter and spring
July 4, 1868.
Appointed Major General in the regu-
lar army.
Severely injured by being thrown from
his horse at New Orleans, September,
1868; three ribs broken.
Appointed to command of the Military
Division of the Mississippi, October, 1868,
and announced headquarters in the field,
arriving at Chattanooga, October %.
Battle of Missionary Ridge and Look
out Mountain, November "a and 25,
1868, driving Bragg from before Chatta-
nooga.
Appointed and confirmed Lieutenant
General of the Army, March 2, 1864,
~ do la;nu oraatad for him
Arrived at Washington, March 8, 1864.
Assumed command of the Union ar
mics, headquarters with the Army of the
Potomac, March II, 1864.
Crossed the Rapidan, May 3, 1864.
May 5, 6 and I, battles of the wilder
ness
May IL, "I shall fight it out on this
line if it takes all summer"
May 20, crossed the Pamunky.
Crossed the James and placed Rich
mond and Petersburg under siege June
IA. Constant battles during the summer,
fall and winter.
Began the final campaign of the war,
March 25, 1865.
Battle of Five Forks, 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 the armies OF
the United States, July %, 1866, the
grade being created for him.
Secretary of War ad interim, August
IL, 1867
To which we may add, will be elected
President in November, 1868.