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Essay on Civil War
The man we recognize as Ulysses S. Grant was in fact named Hiram Ulysses Grant. As a lad he was notorious as ‘Lyss’. Thomas Hamer, the Congressman who selected Grant to West Point, forgot all about Hiram. Identification that Grant's mother's maiden name was Simpson and thinking that was Lyss Grant's middle name, he filled out the submission in the name of ‘Ulysses S. Grant’. While Grant arrived at West Point and revealed that the Academy had him registered under the mistaken name, he tried to get the mistake corrected. He was told that it didn't substance what he or his parents thought his name was, the bureaucrat government application said his name was ‘Ulysses S.’ and that application could not be tainted.
Belatedly in the administration of Andrew Johnson, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant quarreled with the President and aligned himself with the Radical Republicans. He was, as the representation of Union victory during the Civil War, their logical candidate for President in 1868. When he was elected, the American people hoped for an end to turmoil. Grant provided neither vigor nor reform. Looking to Congress for route, he seemed bewildered. One guest to the White House noted “a puzzled pathos, as of a man with a problem before him of which he does not understand the conditions.
Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point somewhat against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. In the Mexican War he fought below Gen. Zachary Taylor. At the eruption of the Civil War, Grant was operational in his father's leather store in Galena, Illinois. He was chosen by the Governor to command a disorderly volunteer regiment. Grant whipped it into form and by September 1861 he had risen to the rank of brigadier broad of volunteers.......
