The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-05-18
SKETCH or the LIFE OF CEN. GRANT,

Pleasant, O., April %, lS22--about
the time, therefore, when the first
manufacturing-company in Lowell
was Incorporated, and year before
the first cotton-mill was started here
Il poor Scotch family were blessed
with the birth of q son, whom they
named Hiram Ulysses Grant. In
the following year, the family re-
moved to Georgetown, o., where /
the child acquired n fair common /
school education. Ia 1889, at the |
age of II, the youth was appointed |
to West Point military academy 10y |
Congressman liamcr of that state. |
and the papers were made out acci-
dentally in the name of Ulysses ).
Grant: from that time, through life,
this change was accepted by him.
self and his family. At the academy
he did not rank very well, except in
mathematics, and when he graduated
in 1913 he stood DIST in class of
80. He was appointed a brcvet 2nd
lieut., and attached as a super
numcrary to the 4th rcgt of the
Regular army, then stationed in
Missouri; but after y brief and un-
important service there, the regt.
was despatched to Texas in 1915,
as part of Gen. Zachary Taylor's
army of invasion. Sept. 30th, 1915,
Grant was commissioned 2nd lieut.
in full rank, and in the following
May, at Palo Alto, Mexico, engaged
in his first real battle. Subsequent
ly, in 1916, he engaged in the bat
ties of Resaca de la Palma, Monte
rey, and the siege of Vera Cruz
and in April, 1917, he became
quartermastcr of his regt. In Sept,
lS47, he fought so gallantly at Mo-
limo del Rey and Chapultepoc as to
win special mention in the official
reports, and rs reward he was
made q 1st lieut.. on the field of the
former, and a brevet capt. directly
after the latter. On the fall of the
city of Mexico, he returned with his
regt. to the United States, success
sivcly posted at Detroit, Mich, and
Sacketts Harbor, N. Y. In 1913,
at the age of 26, he married Miss
Julia L. Dent of st. Louis, sister of
favorlte class-mate of his at West
Point, and daughter of prominent
citizen of that place, who rejoiced in
one of those military titles for which
the South in those days was noted
acquired in civil life. When, in
1852, the 4th regt. was sent to
California and Oregon, then in
very rough and unsettled condition,
Grant and his wife accompanied
them. At Fort Vancouver, in 1858,
he was commissioned capt, and
in less than year after (July,
1S54) he resigned from the army.
His father-in-law induced him to To-
cate on farm near st. Louis, and
he also did small rcal-estate bust
ness in that city. 1t was here that,
freed from the restraints of army
life and thrown among unusual
temptations, he fell into habits of
living which at one time threatened
his future usefulness; but the Sc
quel proved that he could rise above
such besetting foibles and conquer
himself, as we'll as enemies in the
field of war: she that rulcth his
own spirit is greater than he that
taketh city" In 1859, his former
employment proving unsatisfactory,
he removed to Galena, ILL.,, whittier
his father had gone, and there they
formed partnership for the tan
ming and sale Of leather. In this
humble occupation the war of the
rebellion found him and that crisis
opened to him career the most
brilliant in this generation of his
countrymen.
His Career during the Rebel
lion.-Confucius once said, "Des-
pise no youth, for he may afterward
become eminent and shame thee {;
but if he arrive at the age of forty
and be not eminent, he never will
be-" This bit of hcathen philosophy
was disproved in the case of Gen.
Grant. He WAS in his 10th year
WneQ, dJ Iuc OuIDIcuh Ol Iilc ClVli
war, he laid down his humble duties
as tanner to again don the uniform
of his country's soldiers. He was
chosen captain of company of
volunteers and proceeded with them
to the state-capital of Illinois,
Springfield, where he was attached
to the military staff of Gov. Yates.
June II, 1861, he was commissioned
colonel of the 2lst regt. of volun-
teers. He entered at once with yea
into the drilling of the "raw re.
cruits," and then passed into Mis-
souri,, where his troops formed par
of the guard of an important rail
road. July 81, he was placed il
command of all the troops at Mexi
co, Mo-, and Aug. 23 he was made
brigadier-general and took charg,
of the troops at Cairo, Ill. From
this date his promotion was rapid
and his fame assured. He seize(