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Birth
Grant is born in Pleasent Point, Ohio to Jesse Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant.
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Grant departs Ohio for West Point
Originaly, Grants birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. An error in name recording for West Point changed his name to Ulysses S Grant (The 'S' stands for nothing). Grant would never correct this. -
Ulysses Grant graduates from West Point
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Grant serves in the Mexican-American war
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Grant marries his wife, Julia, and moves to Sackets Harbor, New York
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Grant is appointed Colonel of the 21st Illinois Infantry
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Lincoln promotes Grant to Brigadier General of Volunteers
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Grant is surprised by Confederate forces, but fight them off as reinforcements arrive
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Grant lays siege to Vicksburg and takes it
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Grant is made General of al the Union's armies by Lincoln
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Lee surrenders to Grant, ending the Civil War
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Grant serves two terms as United States President
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Grant does a tour around the world
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Grant is diagnosed with throat cancer and starts writing his Memoirs
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Grant dies surrounded by his family at 8:06 AM
