![]() this examination is a hard one they say, but I am not freyhtened yet. If I am successful here you will not see me for two long years. I study hard and hope to get along so as to pass the examination in January. We have tremendous long and hard lessons to get in both French and Algebra. if we want any thing from a shoestring to a coat we must go to the commadant of the post and get an order for it or we cannot have it. Our pay is nominally about twenty eight dollars a month, but we never see one cent of it. He was always called Ulysses, however, and while. I have a spleanded bed and get along very well. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, to Jesse and Hannah Simpson Grant. I am pretty shure that you would be perfectly satisfied that is no easy matter, but glad am I, these things are over. Louis County, the largest military post in the country in 1843. September 30 - Grant is assigned to the 4th infantry and reports to Jefferson Barracks in South St. suppose you try it by way of experiment for a night or two. Military Academy 21st of 39 cadets (nearly half of the class that started in 1839 dropped out before graduation). Excerptįirst, I slept for two months upon one single pair of blankets, now this sounds romantic and you may think it very easy, but I tell you what coz, it is tremendous hard. Grant.” However, army bureaucracy prevailed, and he learned to accept his now famous initials, U. S. The letter provides insight into the life of a West Point cadet and Grant’s own transition into military life. At the time this letter was written, Grant was still trying to use his given name and signed the letter “U. H. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. In it, Grant revealed his first impressions of West Point, his sense of humor, and a bit of a midwestern dialect. In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. On September 22, 1839, shortly after his arrival at West Point, Cadet Grant wrote a letter to his cousin, R. Grant.” Hamer knew the boy as Ulysses and, at a loss for his middle name, chose “S” because Grant’s mother’s maiden name was Simpson. However, Congressman Thomas Hamer had submitted Grant’s application to West Point under the name “Ulysses S. Grant rises from his humble beginnings to become the winning General in one of the Civil Wars bloodiest battles. He wanted to swap his first and middle names when he entered the Academy. In one of the unlikeliest stories in American history, Ulysses S. Grant always disliked his first name and was commonly known by his middle name. præsident ( 1869 1877) fra det Republikanske Parti. It changed the course of his life-and his name. juli 1885) var en amerikansk general og USA s 18. In 1839, seventeen-year-old Hiram Ulysses Grant received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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