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Birth
Born on April 27th, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio -
West Point
Was admitted into West Point Accademy in Ohio -
Mexican War
Left to fight the required 2 years of military service during the Mexican War -
Marriage
Married Julia Dent -
Fort Sumter
Confederate troops attack Fort Sumter -
Volunteers Services
Grant Volunteers his services and trains the Illinois Volunteer Regiment -
Captures Forts
Captures forts Henry and Donelson, and earns him the name "Unconditional Surrender" Grant along with others -
Vicksburg
Takes Vicksburg by siege, splitting the Confederacy by putting the Mississippi under Union control. -
Promotion
After the victories at Vicksburg a Fort Donelson and Henry, Grant was promoted to General over all Union Armies -
Surrender at Appomattox
Grant tracks down Robert E. Lee and his army, inflicting unsustain able casualties and causing Lee to surrender at Appomattox Courthouse -
Election of 1868
At age 46, Grant was elected President and was relected in 1872 -
Leaving Office
Back in the public, Grant new that he had to get a job, but he had had bad luck every other time before while looking for employment. He gets involved in a financial firm but went bankrupt. -
Grant Writes his Memoirs
Grant discovers that he has throat cancer, since he has no money even though his military pension has been reinstated, he writes his memoirs and has his friend Mark Twain publish them, earning his family $450,000 before he dies on July 23rd, 1886
