Ulysses Grant was 18 years of age when he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated at the age of 22 in the middle of his class. During his time at West Point he especially excelled in horsemanship. Indeed he was considered to be the finest horseman West Point ever produced and why he was not earmarked for the cavalry has confounded more then a few historians.
Grant had just turned 17 when he left for West Point.
He learned that he had been appointed to West Point in 1838. He actually started classes there in May, 1839 soon after he turned 17.
Ulysses Grant was named Hiram Ulysses by his parents. He was mistakenly enrolled as Ulysses S. Grant when he entered West Point and he did not correct the mistake . Possibly he was happy to lose the initials HUG.
Hiram Ulysses Grant. They say his middle name was Simpson, it was not.
A mistake was made when was he was enrolled at West Point and he was listed as Ulysses S. Grant. He did not particularly like his old initials of HUG, so he did not try to correct the mistake .
U.S. Grant is the one. His name was really Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he went to West Point. a mistake was made by the man who nominated him, and he became Ulysses S. Grant. He never bothered to have it changed so his name in the army was Ulysses S. Grant.
His father asked a senator he knew to fill out the paperwork so Ulysses could go to West Point. Because this senator didn't take time to ask he wrote Ulysses's name down wrong as Ulysses S. Grant. His real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant.
His father asked a senator he knew to fill out the paperwork so Ulysses could go to West Point. Because this senator didn't take time to ask he wrote Ulysses's name down wrong as Ulysses S. Grant.
His father asked a senator he knew to fill out the paperwork so Ulysses could go to West Point. Because this senator didn't take time to ask he wrote Ulysses's name down wrong as Ulysses S. Grant. His real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant.
Grant's real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. However, when he was nominated for West Point, the Congressman who nominated him, wrote his name as Ulysses S. Grant, presumably thinking his middle name was Simpson, which was his mother's maiden name. He never corrected his name with West Point, was commissioned as Ulysses S.Grant and that became his official army name. Maybe he did not like is old initials of HUG.
When he joined the military at West Point the clerk mistakenly wrote that his name was Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio.
Ulysses Grant was born on April 27,1822, in Pleasant Point Ohio.
His father asked a senator he knew to fill out the paperwork so Ulysses could go to West Point. Because this senator didn't take time to ask he wrote Ulysses's name down wrong as Ulysses S. Grant. His real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant.