Person Record
Metadata
Name |
Grant, Ulysses S. |
Role |
Military |
Born |
04/27/1822 |
Birthplace |
Point Pleasant, Ohio |
Deceased |
07/23/1885 |
Deceased where |
Wilton, New York |
Education |
United States Military Academy at West Point |
Titles & honors |
General, United States Army, 1843-1854; 1861-1869 18th President of the United States, 1869-1877 |
Notes |
Ulysses Simpson Grant is the best known northern general of the Civil War, for it was he who led Union forces to victory. He also served two terms as the eighteenth president of the United States, from 1869 to 1877. Grant graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1843, then served in the Mexican War, but retired from the army in 1854, engaging in business and farming in his native Ohio. When the Civil War began in 1861, Grant was appointed a colonel of the Twenty-first Illinois Infantry. He was promoted to lieutenant general in 1864 and quickly became commander of all of the Union armies. Following several battles in Virginia, Grant captured Richmond, the Confederate capital, and forced General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, on April 9, 1865. |
