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Date of birth
On April 27, 1822 Ulysses S Grant was born to Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant in Point Pleasent, Ohio. -
West Point
Ulysses is appointed to West Point -
Graduation of West Point
After graduating from West Point ranked 21 in a class of 39 in June, Grant learns that he is assigned to duty, beginning September 30, with the Fourth U. S. Infantry at Jefferson Barracks, just outside St. Louis, Missouri. His rank, established automatically by his West Point graduation, will be brevet second lieutenant. -
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Mexican American War
Grant serves in the Mexican-American War. Despite being assigned as quartermaster, he faces battle numerous times, including Churabusco, Chapultepec and Buena Vista. -
Re Enters Army
Grant re enters the army following the Confederate firing on Fort Sumter April 12. -
Victory at Fort Henry
Grant is victorious at Fort Henry, in Tennessee -
Battle of Shiloh
Confederates had the mind set to hit the Union with full force. Confederates struck har pushing the Union to the Tennesse river. At the end of the day, the Union army was largely vunlnerable and subject to elimination by Beauregard. -
Battle of Shiloh Next Day
Grant rallied counter attack that morning, and succeeded driving the Confederates back to the road from Corinth. This battle was the cosliest of all the battles in the Civil War. -
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Siege at Vicksburg
Grant takes Grand Gulf, Raymond, Jackson, Champion's Hill, and the Black River Bridge and begins the siege at Vicksburg. -
Arrival in Chattanooga
Grant arrives in Chattanooga to take command and relieve troops cut off from supplies and reinforcements. -
Urgent Matters
The situation at Chattanooga was urgent. Grant had organized three armies to attack Bragg on Missionary Ridge and Confederate troops on Lookout Mountain. -
Attack of Bragg's Flank
Maj. Gen. Sherman and four divisions of the Army of the Tennessee assaulted Bragg's right flank. Thomas and Army of the Cumberland, under order from Grant, overtook Confederate picket trenches at the base of Missionary Ridge. Maj. Gen. Hooker and the Army of the Potomac took Lookout Mountain and captured 1,064 prisoners. -
Continue to Attack Bragg's Flank
Sherman continued his attack on Bragg's right flank on the northern section of Missionary Ridge. In response to Sherman's assault Bragg withdrew Confederate troops on the main ridge to reinforce the Confederate right flank. Seeing that Bragg was reinforcing his right flank, Grant ordered Thomas to make a general assault on Missionary Ridge. After a brief delay, the Army of the Cumberland, stormed over and captured the first Confederate rifle entrenchments. Without further orders, the Army of the -
Letter to Grant from Lincoln
President Lincoln writes to thank Grant "for the skill, courage, and perseverance with which you and they, over so great difficulties, have effected that important object." -
Grand Campaign
Grant begins the Grand Campaign to have all Union armies working in unison on all fronts to keep Confederate armies from moving to support one another depending on where a battle was occurring. -
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Battle of the Wilderness
The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia. Which then lead to the bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. -
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Battle of Cold Harbor
It was one of the final battles of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign during the American Civil War, and is remembered as one of American history's bloodiest, most lopsided battles. Thousands of Union soldiers were killed or wounded in a hopeless frontal assault against the fortified positions of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's army. -
President
Grant becomes the 18th president. -
Death of U.S Grant
Grant passes away from throat cancer.
