Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-31
Gen. Grants Career.
PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF THE MAN
WHOM THE PEOPLE DELIGHT TO HONOR


WHOM THE PEOPLE DELIGHT TO HONOR.
Ulysses Sydney Grant, born at Mount
Pleasant Claremont county, Ohio, April 27,
| 1872.
Family removed to Georgetown, Brown
county, Ohio, 1923.
Appointed cadet at West Point by the Hon
| T. L. Horner, 1889.
Graduated on June 30, lS43, standing No
| 81 in a class of IS members. Entered the
army rolls as Brevet Second Lieutenant and
assigned to the Fourth Infantry on the Mis-
souri, frontier, as a supernumerary.
! Commissioned September 30, 1915. Second
Lieutenant of Infantry
Went in Taylor's army to Mexico and took
! part in all the actions, from Polo Alto, May
/ 5, 1916, to Monterey, September %, 1916
Transferred to Scott's army and took part
in the siege of Vera Cruz.
! Assigned as quartermaster of his regiment
! April. ls47.
In the battle of Monlino del Ray, Septem-
Der s. ls47, promoted on the field by General
! Scott to First Lieutenant, for distinguished
| gallantry.
Battle of Chapultepec, September 49, 1s47,
officially noticed for gallantry by Gen.
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 1850, for services
at Chapultepec.
Commissioned Captain, August, 1853.
Resigned July 81, 1854 spent a few years
| in business in St. Louis and in farming
Removed to Galena, ILL.,, and, with his faith
er, established there the leather house of Grant
Il Son, 1859.
Appointed mastering officer and aid TO
Governor Yates, of Illinois, at Springfield
April, 1861.
Commissioned Colonel of the Twenty.frst
Illinois (three year. Volunteers, June IL,
1861.
Appointed Brigadier- GeneIal by President
Lincoln, August, 1861 commission dated
back to May ~, and placed in command of
the district of Cairo.
Occupied Paducah, Ky, by a surprise
movement, September g. 1861.
Defeated JEFF Thompson at Greenville,
October IL, 1861.
Battle of Belmont, November :, 1861.
Moved up the Tennessee, and with Foote'S
ironclads captured Fort Henry February G,
1862.
Invested Fort Donelson February IL, and
captured it February lG, by the uncondition-
al surrender of the enemy.
Promoted to be Maj jOr- General of Volun-
teers, commission dating from the fall of
Donelson.
Advance against Corinth, March 1862.
Battle of Pittsburg Landing, April and
s, 1862
Placed in command of the Army of the
Tennessee, April l.; ; occupied Memphis and
Holly Springs in June; made Commander of
the Department of Tennessee in July.
Began the campaign against Nicksburg
October %, 1862 captured the city after a
long and bloody winter and spring campaign,
July t. 1868
Appointed Major General in the regular
army.
Severely injured by being thrown from his
horse at New Orleans, September, 1863 three
ribs broken.
Appointed to the command of the military
division of the Mississippi, October, 1863
and announced headquarters in the field ar
irving at Chattanooga, October %.
Battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout
mountain. November ~ and %, 1863 driving
Bragg from before Chattanooga.
Appointed and confirmed Lieutenant Gen
eral Of the army, March ?, 1864, the grade be-
ing created for him.
Arrived at Washington March s, 1864.
Assumed command of all the Union armies;
headquarters with the army Of the Potomac,
March r. 1864
Crossed the Rapidan May 3, 1864.
May ., 6 aud :, battles of the Wilderness.
MAY II, huul nBnl IL Out Ou thls iuo II
it takes all summer"
May 20, crossed the Pamunky.
Crossed the James and placed Richmond
and Petersburg under siege, June H. Con
stant battles during the summer, fall and win
ter.
Began the final campaign of the war, March
% 1863
Battle of Five Forks, March 81 and April /.
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 2G, 1866, the grade being
created for him.
Secretary of War ad interim, August -,
1867.
Unanimously nominated for President of
the United States by the Union Republican
Convention at Chicago, May 81, 1865.
Elected President of the United States, Nov.
3, 1865.
Nominated for a second term by the Ma
tional Republican Convention held in Phila-
delphia, June g. 1872.
Reelected President in November, 1872.
Sailed from Philadelphia on a tour around
the world in the steamship Indiana, May II,
1877.
Arrived in San Francisco, on his return to
the United States, Sept, 20, 1879.