The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-10-31
PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN GRANTS LIFE

life:
Ulysses S. Grant, born at Mount Pleas
ant, Clermont county, Ohio, April 9th.
1922.
Family removed to Georgetown, Brown
county, Ohio, 1923.
Appointed ca let at West Point, by Hon.
T. l.. Harner. 1889.
Graduated June 80, IS43, standing TWEEN
ty-first in class of thirty eight members.
Entered on the army rolls as brevet Second
Lieutenant, and assigned to the Fourth In
fantry, on the Missouri frontier, as a super
| numerary.
Commissioned, Sept. 80, 1S45, Second
Lieutenant of Infantry.
Went in Taylor's army to Mexico and
took part III all the actions. fren f:,.o Alte,
May s, 1876, to Monterey, September %,
1916.
Transferred to Scott's army and took part
! in the siege of Vera Cruz.
Assigned as Quartermaster of his regl-
ment April, lS47.
In the hattie of Mo,ino Del Rev. Septen-
ber s, ls47, promoted on the field, by Gen
eral Scott, to First Lietenant for distin-
guished gallanty.
Battle of Chepultepec, September 13,
l747. 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 Dalles.
Appointe ed brevet CAPTAIN 1850, for SER
| vices at Chepultepec.
| Commissioned Captain August, 1853.
| Resigned July 3lst, 1851; .F.nt a few
years in business in St. Louis and in farm
ing.
| ID =. L L
| his father, established there the leather
house of Grant & Son, 1856.
Appointed mus ering officer end all to
Governor Yates of Illinois, at Springfield,
| April. 1861.
Commissioned Colonel of the twenty first
| Illinois, three years) Volunteers, June Is,
| 1861.
Appointed Brigadier- General by President
Lincoln, August, 1861, commission dated
back to May l7). and placed in COM
mand of the district of Cairo.
| Occupied Paducah, KY, by surprise
movement, September 6, 1861.
Defeated jeff Thompson at Greenville,
October Is, 1861.
Battle of Belmont, November 7, 1851.
Moved up the Tennessee. and with Foot 5
ironclads captured Fort Henry. February 6,
1862
Invested Fort Donelson, February IL, and
captured it February l6, by the uncondi-
tional surrender of the enemy.
Promoted to be Major General of Volun-
teers. commission dating from the fall of
Donelson.
Advanced against Corinth, March, 1852.
Battle of Pittsburg Landing, April and
8, 1862
| Placed in comand of the Army Of the
Tennessee, April 18th occupied Memphis
and Holly Springs in June; made Com
mander of the Department of the Tennessee
in July.
Began the campaign against Vicksburg
October 25. 1862 !; captured the city after a
long and bloody winter and Spring cam
paign, July 4, 1863.
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, 1863,
and announced headquarters in the field,
arriving at Chattanooga October 23d.
Battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout
Mountain. November "a and 25, 1868, driv-
ing Bragg from before Chat anooga.
Appointed and confirmed Lieutenant-Gen-
eral OF the Army, March 2, 1864, the grade
being created for him.
Arriving at Washington March s. 1864.
Assumed command of all the Union Ar
mics headquarters with the army of the
Potomac, March IL, 1864.
Crossed the Rapidan May 3, 1864.
May 9Th, 9th, 7th, battles of the Wilder.
ness.
May llth. 81 shall fight it out on this
line if it takes all Summer"
May 29th crossed the Pamnmkey.
Crossed the James and placed Richmond
and Petersburg under seige June 18th.
Constant battles during the summer, fall and
winter
Began the final campaign of the war,
Battle of Five Forks, March 3lst and
April lst.
Occupation of Richmond, April Cd.
Surrender of Lees army, April 9. 1868.
and substantial end of the war.
Appointed General of the armies of the
United States, July 25, 1866. the grade be-
ing created for him.
Secretary of War ad interim, August 10.
1867.
Unanimously nominated for President of
the United States hy the Union Republican
Convention at Chicago May 81. 1868
Elected President of the United States
November 3, 1868.
Nominated for n second term by the Ma.
tional Republican Convention held in Pbila.
delphia, November 5, 1872.
Reelected President in November. 1879
Saile,l from Philadelphia, on tour around
the world, In the steamship Indiana, May
II, 1877.
Arrived in San Francisco, on his return
to the United States, September 20, 1879.
Mr.. j. c. Cartwright, collector of inter.
v1a fny hi Il sc4,u 4.