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Famous influential person

Introduction

• Who he was • Childhood• Career • Successes • Beliefs • Goals/dreams

Hiram Ulysses Grant

• born in Point Pleasant on April 27, 1822• 18th President of the United States• Died July 23, 1885, Mount McGregor, New

York

Childhood

• Father was a tanner• he had no interest in military life• Forced to go to west point military academy• Given the name Ulysses S. Grant at west point

Early Military career

• Second Lieut., 4th Infantry• fought in the Mexican War• Cited twice for bravery.• He resigned from the Army in 1854

Military career during civil war

• Major-General, U. S. Army• led troops to fight battles in the western

theater• He was both praised and criticized • helped end the Civil War

Presidential career

• Soon After civil war grant was elected president • Grant wanted to ratify of the Fifteenth Amendment• sent the military to protect African Americans from

newly formed terrorist groups

Successes

• He captured Fort Donelson, Tennessee in February 1862

• He captured Vicksburg• He broke the Confederate hold on Chattanooga,

Tennessee• April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court

House• settling of the Alabama claims dispute with Great

Britain

Beliefs and morals

• Born Methodist • Was not religious • Did not believe in slavery

Dreams and goals

• Helped end slavery

Conclusion

• Who he was • Childhood• Career • Successes • Beliefs • Goals/dreams

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Philadelphia: Courage, 2000. Print.• Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt., Curt Johnson, and Davis L. Bongard. The

Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography: An Invaluable Compilitation and Assesment of the 3000 Most Important Worldwide Military Figures from Earliest times to the Present. Edison: Harper/Collins, 1995. Print.

• Morgan, Keya. Uylsses S Grant Home Page. Uylsses S Grant Home Page, 2009. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. <http://www.empirenet.com/~ulysses/>.