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Brief Biographical Sketch of Gen. Grant.
Gen. Grant was born April %, 1922, at
Point Pleasant, ClermOnt county, Ohio.
He was chriStened Hiram ULYSSES Grant
but the Congressman who procured his ap-
pOintment to West Point by mistake gave
his name as Ulysses 5. Grant. He tried to
have the error in the records corrected, but
tailed, and his diploma and brevet as second
Lieutenant, when he was graduated in 1843
styled him Ulysses S. Grant; and by this
name he mas since been known. He was as
signed to the Fourth Infantry, and served in
every battle in the Mexican War ex-
cept Buena Vista, and after the war
was stationed on the Canada frontier,
and later in Oregon and California.
In 1848 he married Julia T. Dent
daughter of Frederick Dent of st. Louis,
and in 1854, after haYing reached the grade
of Captain, resigned his commission and
went to farming at Gravois, near the home
trade with his father and brother at
Galena, Ill. After the fall of Sumter
he organized and drilled a company
Springfield, where he wrote letter to the
War Department offering his services in
whatever capacity he could be of use. He
received no answer from Washington, and
IN five weeks found himself at the head of
the Twenty-frst Illinois Infantry, with
which. he reported to Brig. = Gen.
Pope in Missouri. While at the town of
the President making him Brigadier-G GEN
eral OF volunteers. In three weeks after he
had been commissioned, he captured Padu-
cab, and saved to the United States the con-
the battle of Belmont, the capture of
Forts DonelsOn and Henry, the battle of
Shiloh, the siege and surrender of Vicks-
burg, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain
Missionary Ridge, the plan of the Atlanta
and Mobile campaign, and the elevation of
the successful leader in 1864 to the position
of Lieutenant General, with the COM
mand of all the armies. With Grant
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the character of the war changed. The
greatest number of troops practicable
were brought to bear upon the enemy, and
were kept constantly at work, in all parts of
the country, at all times and in all weathers.
1t was his plan to prevent recuper-
alton by the rebels, to give no rest
from attack, no opportunity to re-
enforce, no chance. to reorganize
armies or re-create supplies. Every chance
was to be tried, every point was
to be threatened. and he himself would
command in the field the army which was to
strike the decisive blow in Virginia. For the
first time there was perfect confidence be-
tween the President and Secretary of War
and the leader Of the Union forces.
winch was SO strong that Grant was even
he had made or should make. March 9Th
he received his commission as Lieutenant
General, and on the 10th he went to the
front with the Army of the Potomac Then
came the battles of the Wilderness and the
movement upon Richmond, the investment
Of Petersburg, fall of Richmond. the sur
render of Lee and the end of the war.
After the restoration of the Union. Com
greSs created and bestowed upon Grant the
rank of General of the Army. He was twice
the successful Republican candidate for the
Presidency Of the United States, and. after
the close of his second term. made four of
the world, receiving distinguished marks of
respect from people and sOvereigns. Since
his return TO the United States he has made
New rev. YORK city ms residence. The ruin of
his fortune by the rascality of his business
associate, his reinstatement by Congress in
the rank and with the pay of General. and
the Incidents of the wasting disease which
has worn away his life, and the tokens of
regard from the people of the Union, called
forth by his misfOrtunes and suiferings, are
too recent to require detailed mention. As
GregOr, where he died early this morning
surrounded by the members Of his family,