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Grant served in the Union army for a total of four years. Prior to that he was in the United States Army for ten years from 1843 to 1853 and resigned as a captain. Following the war he remained in the army until elected president of the US in 1868, and his total military service amounts to 17 years.

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In 1843, soon after he graduated from West Point, he entered the army as a second lieutenant.

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