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Hiram Ulysses Grant is born
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Grant moves to Georgetown Ohio
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Grant applies to the U.S. Military Academy
His friend that applied him to the academy accidentally put his first name as Ulysses. He now goes by Ulysses -
Grant graduates from the academy
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Grant meets Julia Dent
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Grant proposes in May
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Grant serves in the Mexican-American War
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Grant marries Julia
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Frederick Dent Grant is born (Julia and Grant's first born)
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Ulysses S. Grant Jr. is born (Julia and Grant's second born)
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Grant resigns from the army to be with family
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Ellen Wrenshall Grant is born (Julia and Grant's third born)
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Jesse Root Grant is born (Julia and Grant's fourth and final born)
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Grant reenters the army
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Grant is successful in capturing Fort Henry
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Grant receives his commission as Lieutenant General of all Union armies
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Elected as the 18th President of the U.S.
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Civil Rights Act passed
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Grant announces he will not run for 3rd term
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Colorado enters the Union as the 38th state
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Rutherford B. Hayes becomes the 19th president of the U.S.
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Grant is diagnosed with throat cancer
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He loses his fortune to his sons business partner
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Grant begins writing memoirs of the Civil War
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Ulysses S. Grant dies. He is buried in a temporary tomb in Riverside Park in New York city
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Construction of Grant's permanent tomb is completed.
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Construction of Grant's permanent tomb is completed.
