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Hiram Ulysses Grant is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. He later is called Ulysses Simpson Grant.
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Ulysses Grant attends and graduates at the military academy at West Point
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Ulysses Grant is a captain in the Mexican war until 1848.
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Ulysses Grant marries Julia Boggs Dent in St. Louis Missouri.
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The oldest son is born
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The second child is born.
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He resigned to avoid getting kicked out of the army.
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Ellen Wrenshaw Grant (Nellie) is born
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The youngest child is born.
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Confederate troops attack Fort Sumter in South Carolina
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Grant goes back to the army and is quickly promoted.
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Grant sends William Sherman to capture the capital of Mississippi and he forces them to surrender.
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General Pemberton surrenders at the Battle of Vicksburg.
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The Union loses this battle.
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Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appoattox courthouse.
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He is promoted to General of the Army
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Grant serves as Secretary of War.
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Ulysses S. Grant is voted in as president of the United States
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Grant is re-elected as president
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Ulysses S. Grant Dies in Mount McGregor, New York of throat cancer.
