Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-07-30

Ulysses Simpson Grant was born at Point
Pleasant, O., April q, 1s22. His ancestors
to the village of Georgetown, o., where his
boyhOOd was passed.
At the age of seventeen General Grant en-
tered the Military Academy at West Point.
he had been christened Hiram Ulysses, but
the Congressman who procured his appoint
ment, by mistake, wrote him down as Ulysses
s Grant. The authorities at West Point and
young cadet to correct the biunder, but no
notice was taken OF the request. Ulysses 8.
Grant had been recorded and Ulysses 8.
Grant he remained. The study in which he
les. He graduated in 1913, twenty-frst in a
class of thrty-nine, and was commissioned
Breyet Second Lieutenant and assigned to
In the summer Of 1916 the regiment was or
dered to Texas to join the army of General
Taylor. He was commissioned Lieutenant
September 30: His first battle was ut Pale
Alto, May 8, 1916, and he subsequently took
part also in tho battles of Resaca de la Palma
and Monterey, and the siege OF Vera Cruz. In
April, 1A7, he was made Quartermaster OF
his regiment, and after the battle of Molino
del Roy, Septembers 9, 1s47, he was appointed
on the field First Lieutenant for his gal
lantry. He was specially mentioned in Col
pultepec, and was brevetted Captain, his
commission dating from that battle. After
the capture of the City Of Mexico, Grant re-
turned with his regiment and was first
a. |CtION sauO altOI WatuS ~
Sacket's Harder.
In 1913 he married Miss Julia T. Dent,
daughter of merchant in st. Louis and the
sister of one of his classmate. In 1859 he
accompanied his regiment to California and
Oregon, and in 1855 was commissioned Cap
tain. In 1854 he resigned his comm ssiOn in
the army and removed to Gravios. near st.
Louis, where he opened q farm. There his
daughter Nellie, now Mrs. SartOris was born.
In 1859 he removed to Galena, Ill, and en-
gagged in the leather trade with his father
and brother, Orville
On the 18th of April, 1861, Fort Sumter fell.
On the 18th President Lincoln made his call
for troops, and on the 10Th Grant was drilling
company of volunteers in Galena. Four
there he wrote to the Adjutant-General OF
the army, Offering his services to the Gov
eminent in any capacity in which it cared to
make use of him. Grant remained ut Spring
field and helped to organize the voluntee,
troops of the State. After five weeks of this
work, which his military education had spe-
cially fitted him fer, Governor Yates offered
him the Twenty-frst Regiment of Illinois in
fantry.
He took command of hts regiment early in
June and marched to Missouri. Reporting
at Mexico, about fifty miles north of the Mis-
souri, River. On August % he was cOmmls-
stoned Brigader-Gencral of Volunteers, his
commission being dated back to May II. His
first military achievement was tho seizure of
Paducah, KY, which commanded the navi-
cation OF both the Tennessee and the Ohio.
At the battle of Belmont November Z,
Grant commanded in person and had
{ he captured Fort Henry. and ten
days later Fort DOnelSOn surrendered to
him: His reply to the Confederate General
Buckner, in command Of Fort Donelson, who
sent to him asking terms of capitulaton,
was eminently characteristic of the great
soldier: mo terms except unconditional
and immediate surrender can be accepted
l propose to move Immediately upon your
works." The terms were complied with, and
the Stars and Stripes soon duttered over Fort
DonelsOn.
General Grant was at once promoted to be
Major General, and appointed Commander of
the District of West Tennessee. Immediately
after the capture of Fort Dor elsOn, Grant
fell under General Halleck's displeasure and
was removed, but in about a week was
ordered to resume his command. The great
battle of Shiloh was fought on Sunday and
Monday, the 9Th and 9TH of April, 1852, and
resulted in a victory for the Union Soldiers.
1t was in this engagement that the Confed-
crate General Albert Sidney Johnston was
killed. At the siege of Corinth Grant
and in whsn ae to latter was
called to Washington. Grant was appointed
to the command of the Army of the Tennes-
see. He captured yicksburg July 4, 1853, and
defeated Bragg at Chattanooga in November |
following. In March, 1864, President Lincoln |
appointed Grant COmmanderin-Chef of the |
armies in the field, with the rank of Lieuten- |
ant-General. On the 18th of that month |
Grant issued his first general order assuming |
of the armies of the United States, |
and announced that headquarters would be |
lin the field, and, until further orders. with
the Army of the Potomac" At midnight, |
May 3, Grant began the movement against |
which. after a series of hard
fought battles. resulted in the capture of the |
Capital April 3, 1865. On the 9Th |
Of the same month General Lee and his en-
tire command surrendered to Grant at APP
pOmattox Courthouse, Va.
In July, 1855, General Grant was commits
0dH np ut fbo Arrrrxy 10
,ially provided for him by act of Congress.
August II, 1867, President Johnson suspended /
Stanton from Office, and appointed
General Grant Secretary of War ad interim
This Office Grant held until January IA, 1883,
when he returned it to Mr. Stanton. whose
removal the United States Senate had refused
% sanction.
At the Republican National Convention
leld in Chicago May /, 1868, General Grant
vas nominated on the first ballot for Presi-
lent. He was elected in the fall, with the
n the Republican National Convention held
n Philadelphia June 5, 1872, Grant was re-
nominated by reclamation. Henry Wilson. of
Massachusetts,, being nominated for Vice
President. He received popular majority
If nearly 10000 votes over Horace Greeley, |
he Democratic nominee.
Shortly after the expiration of his term in
ST., the General and Mrs. Grant made a tour
round the world, landing at San Francisco in
'eptember of that year. He was received
Everywhere with the highest consideration,
he Governments and peoples Of the Old
World vying with each other in doing honor
o the American soldier and patriot.
General Grant was very prominent candi
late before the Chicago Natio nal Republican
in 1880, for the nomination for
resident for a third term, but did not sue.
eed in getting the nomination. Since then
10 has lived in New York. His financial
rOubles are too recent to need mention in
his connection. In the last hours of the re-
ent Congress, bill was passed placing the
Id hero on the retired list of the army, with
be rank and pay of General.
ID 'harrpI with heinz a Yarranto