The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24
GENERAL U. :. GRANT.

Ulysses Sydney Grant was born at Mount
Pleasant, Clermont county, Ohio, April 9th,
1922
Family removed to Georgetown, Brown
county, Ohio, 1888.
Appointed cadet at West Point, by Hon.
T. L. Harner. 1899.
Graduated June 30th 1913, standing num-
Der twenty-one in class of thirty-ei ght
members. Entered on the army rolls as
brevet Second Lieutenant, and assigned to
Fourth Infantry, on the Missouri frontier, as
a supernumerary.
Commissioned September 50th, 1915, sec
ond lieutenant of infantry.
Went in Taylor's army to Mexico and took
part in all the actions, from Palo Alto. May
8, 1916, to Monterey, September %, 1916.
Transferred to Scott's army, and took part
in the siege of Vera Cruz.
Assigned as Quartermaster of his regi-
ment April, 1847.
In the battle of Molino del Rey, September
5, lS47, promoted on the field, by General
Scott, to First Lieutenant, for distinguished
gallantry.
Battle of Chapultepec, September l3, lS47 !,
officially noticed 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 assigned to duty in Oregon, with
headquarters at Fort Dalles.
Appointed brevet Captain in 1850. for
services at Chapultepec.
Commissioned Captain August, 1853.
Resigned July 81, 1854 spent few years
in business in St. Louis. and in farming.
Removed to Galena, Illinois, and, with bis
father, established there the leather house of
Grant & Son, 1859.
Appointed mastering officer and aid to
Governor Yates, of Illinois, at Springfield,
April, 1861.
Commissioned Colonel of the Twenty first
Illinois (three years Volunteers. June 18th,
1861.
Appointed Brigadier General by President
Lincoln, August, 1861 commission dated
back to May l7th), and placed in command
of the district of Cairo.
Occupied Paducab, Kentucky, by a sur
prise movement, September 9th, 1861.
Defeated JEFF. Thompson at Greenville,
October 10th, 1861.
Battle of Belmont, November 7th, 1861.
Moved up the Tennessee, and with Foote's
iron-clads, captured Fort Henry. February
9th, 1862.
Invested Fort Donelson,' Febru Try llth,
and captured it February 10th, by the un-
conditional surrender of the enemy
Promoted to be Major General of Volun-
teers, commission dating from the fall OF
Donelson.
Advance against Corinth, March, 1862
Battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 18th
and 9Th, 1862.
Placed in command of the Army Of the
Tennessee, April l3th occupied Memphis
and Holly Springs in June; made command
er of the Department Of the Tennessee in
July.
Began the campaign against Vicksburg,
October 25th, 1862; captured the city after
a long and bloody winter and spring cam
paign, July 4th. 1868.
Appointed Major General in the Regular
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, ar.
riving at Chattanooga October 23d.
Battles of Missionary Ridge and lookout
Mountain, November 9th and 25th, 1868
driving Bragg from before Chattanooga.
Appointed and confirmed Lieutenant Gen
eral of the army, March ID, 1861, the grade
Icing created for him.
Arrived at Washington March Sth. 1864.
Assumed command of all the Union AR.
mics, headquarters with the Army of the
Potomac, March 18th, 1864.
Crossed the Ripidan May Sd, 1864.
May 5th, 9th and 7th, battles of the Will
derness.
May llth, u shall fight it out on this
line If it takes all summer"
May 29th. crossed the Pamunkey.
Crossed the James, and placed Richmond
and Petersburg under siege June 18th
Constant battles during the summer, fall and
winter.
Began the final campaign of the wal
March 25th, 1865.
Battle of Five Forks, March 3lst and April
lst.
Occupation of Richmond, April ID.
Surrender of Lees army. April 9th, 1865
and substantial end of the war.
Appointed General of the Armies of tht
United States July 25th, 1865, the grade
being created for him.
Secretary Of War ad interim, August 18th
1867.
Unanimously nominated for President o.
the United States by the Union Republican
Convention at Chicago, May 2lst, 1868.
Elected President of the United States