Hiram Ulyssess Grant Research Paper

Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, on April 27, 1822, to his father Jesse Root Grant and his mother Hannah Grant. His father, Jesse Root Grant, was from St. Louis County, Missouri. His father received a poor education as a child, and grew up to be a tanner and a businessman. His mother, Hannah Grant was from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. They were married in June 1821, almost a year before Grant was born. In 1823, the family moved to Georgetown in Brown County, Ohio, it was there that Grant started attending school.
The schools, at the time of which I write, were very indifferent. There were no free schools, and none in which the scholars were classified. They were all supported by subscription, and a single teacher-who was often a man or a woman incapable of teaching much, even if they imparted all they knew-would have thirty or forty scholars, male and female, from the infant learning the A B C’s up to the young lady of eighteen and the boy of twenty, studying the highest branches taught-the three R’s, “Reading, ’Riting, ’Rithmetic.”(Grant 21).

The letter was a request from West Point, West Point was a military school located in West Point, NY. “I really had no objection to going to West Point, except that I had a very exalted idea of the acquirements necessary to get through”(Grant 28). At the school there was an error with some of the paper work, and to prevent from being rejected by the academy he changed his name to Ulysses S. Grant. “Grant didn't excel at West Point, earning average grades and receiving several demerits for slovenly dress and tardiness, and ultimately decided that the academy “had no charm” for him. He did well in mathematics and geology and excelled in horsemanship.”(A&E Television Networks). He graduated in 1843, he ranked 21st in a class of