Hiram Ulyssess Grant Research Paper

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Hiram Ulysses Grant was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant Ohio. He moved in with his parents, his father, Jesse Grant and his mother Hannah Simpson Grant to Georgetown, Ohio where his father ran a tannery. In 1839, his father, Jesse Grant, arranged his son’s to the U.S. military at West Point. The congressmen was told that Grant mistakenly believed that his name was Ulysses and that his middle name was Simpson (his mother’s maiden last name). He never really wanted to change and accepted the name that he had (Ulysses S. Grant) as his real name, although he maintained that the “S” did not stand for anything. In 1843 he graduated from West Point. He was known as a skilled horseman, but an otherwise distinguished student. From 1822 to