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The purpose of this website is to disseminate selected information and resources on Union General and Eighteenth President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant. Informativeness, relevancy, accuracy and fairness are the main criteria the author of the website applied in selecting material. 

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• Born: April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio
• Parents: Jesse Root Grant (1794-1873) and Hannah Simpson Grant (1798-1883). USG was their first child.
• Brothers: Samuel Simpson Grant, 1825-1861. Orvil Lynch Grant, 1835-1881 (obituary), at Find-a-Grave.
• Sisters: Clara Rachel Grant, 1828-1865. Virginia Paine Grant Corbin, 1832-1913. Mary Frances Grant Cramer, 1839-1905.
• Children: Frederick Dent Grant (May 30, 1850-April 12, 1912).    Ulysses "Buck" S. Grant, Jr. (July 22, 1852-Sept. 25, 1929).   Ellen "Nellie" Wrenshall Grant (July 4, 1855-August 30, 1922).   Jesse Root Grant, II (Feb. 6, 1858-June 8, 1934)
• Went to West Point: 1839
• Graduated from West Point: 1843
• Mexican War: 1844-1846
• Married, August 22, 1848 to Julia Dent Grant (Jan. 26, 1826-December 14, 1902)
• Left the Army: 1854
• Returned to the Army: 1861
• Promoted to Lieutenant General of all Union Armies: March, 1864
• Received Surrender from General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox: April 9, 1865
• Elected President 1868 and 1872. Served from 1869 to 1877. Forty-six years old when first elected
• Went on World Tour: 1877-1879
• Died: July 23, 1885 of throat cancer at Mt. McGregor, New York. Age 63.
• Link to a complete timeline from PBS's American Experience.

♦Marie E. Kelsey, Ph.D.
♦mkelsey@css.edu
♦Professor Emerita, College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota
♦Ph.D. Library Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
♦Licensed school library media specialist and teacher of English
♦Former director of the Educational and Media and Technology program (licensure and master's degree) at St. Scholastica
♦Full disclosure: Ulysses S. Grant is my avocation and I do not have a degree in history.
♦Author of Ulysses S. Grant, A Bibliography, Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2005.