“His birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant in the meantime, his name was changed due to a clerical error during his first days at the United States Military Academy at West Point”. (civilwar.org) Ulysses was a commanding general in the US Army and brought part of his army staff to the White House. When he was a child, he was like any other normal kid, he went to school, finished his chores, fished, and rode horses.
Hiram Ulysses Grant was born on April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio. “His Father was a tanner who took animal hides and processed them into leather. He made a good living, but the work conditions were horrible - skinned and raw animal carcasses everywhere, their hides tossed into kettles of stinging stinking chemicals”. The Grant family originally arrived in Boston in 1630 and each generation moved steadily westward before ending up in Ohio. There, after Grant's grandmother died, his grandfather was unable to provide for the eight children and had to break up the family. Grants love for horses grew as he became older. He worked on the field with them and on the farm he raced them around the ranch. He was only at the age of seven when he started to ride them.
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When he was a colonel, he gave his first command of the 21st Illinois Infantry, but then was promoted to brigadier general in July 1861. Grant earned a nickname of “Unconditional Surrender”. Many people wanted Grant removed from command because he faced an overwhelming amount of casualties. The Commander who in 1864 used attrition without regard to the lives of his own soldiers in order to kill off the enemy which could no longer replenish its losses. Throughout the Civil War Grant's armies incurred approximately 154,000 casualties, while having inflicted 191,000 casualties on his opposing Confederate