But they knew he was intelligent and skilled, and West Point was free.
The Grants had little money to pay for the boy’s college education. So, when Grant was a young man, his father asked West Point officials to admit his son as a student. He said he would not do it when he was an adult. Grant’s father worked as a tanner – a person who makes leather from animal skin.Īs a boy, Grant helped his father. Grant as a soldier, attributed to Matthew Brady They began saying Grant’s first two initials stood for “Unconditional Surrender.”
In the North, people celebrated the victory. The answer did not please the Confederate general, but he agreed. General Grant replied: “No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender.” The Confederate general sent a note asking for the terms of surrender - in other words, what would the Union army require of them if they withdrew from the battle? In a famous battle in the state of Tennessee, Grant’s army overpowered their opponents. Years later, Grant joked that it did not mean anything.ĭuring the Civil War, however, Grant’s middle name did come to have a popular meaning. He thought Grant used his mother’s family name, Simpson, as his middle name. The congressman did not know Grant personally. Military Academy at West Point, New York. When Grant was a young man, a member of Congress appointed him to a top college: the U.S. When the future 18 th president was born, his parents named him Hiram Ulysses Grant.
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