Ulysses s grant biography timeline



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Life of Ulysses S. Grant Chronology

1821, June 24 - Marriage of Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson.

1822, April 27 - Hiram Ulysses [later Ulysses Simpson] Grant was born at Point Pleasant, Clermont Comity, Ohio.

1823 - His family removed to Georgetown, Brown County.

1836-7 - Spends winter at Maysville, Kentucky, attending the Seminary.

1838- 9 - Attends boarding school at Ripley.

1839 - Appointed to United States Military Academy at West Point and registers as Ulysses S.

Grant, a name he will continue to use for the rest of his life.


Ulysses S. Grant United States Military Academy, West Point, Graduate Picture

1843 - Graduated twenty-first in a class of thirty-nine, and reported for duty as brevet second lieutenant, Fourth Infantry, at Jefferson Barracks, near St.

Louis.

1844 - Service at Natchitoches.

1844, February - He meets Julia Dent. 

1845 - Engagement to Miss Julia Dent.

1845, October 1 - Full second lieutenant, Seventh Infantry, at Co