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Colonel US Grant was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in July of 1861. He led his troops to victory in Padua, Kentucky where the Confederates had established a base.

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How did Ulysses S. Grant get in the military?

He was a West Point graduate so he got an automatic commission for his first time in the army. He left the army, but after the Civil War began, the army was eventually willing to take him back as a colonel. In a few months he was promoted to brigadier general .


What forces did Brigadier General US Grant have in his capture of Fort Henry?

General US Grant had 15,000 troops which were accompanied by seven gunboats when he took over Confederate Fort Henry on February 6, 1862.


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First battle in Tennessee - a Union victory under the unknown Brigadier-General U.S. Grant.


Which president was the youngest brigadier general of the union army in 1862?

I will never tell, that candy bar is mine! NEW RESPONDENT. The youngest Brigadier General of the Union Army in 1862 at the age of 23, was George Armstrong Custer, also called "the boy general." Indeed he never became President. If you are referring to Ulysses S. Grant, he was promoted Brigadier General on Aug.7,1861 at the age of 39.


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Hiram Ulysses Grant, more commonly known as Ulysses S. Grant, held the military rank and title of Brigadier General of the Union army of the North during the United States Civil War.


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