Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, a town on the Ohio River near Cincinatti. In 1823, the Grant family moved to Georgetown, Ohio, where Ulysses attended school until he was 14. He then spent one year at an acadamy in Maysville, Kentucky and in 1838 he entered an academy in Ripley, Ohio. In 1839, Ulysses's father, Jesse, found out that a neighbor's son had been dismissed from West Point. Jesse asked his congressman to appoint Ulysses as a replacement, and the congressman agreed. Grant was an average student at West Point, althoug....

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