Ulysses S. Grant civil war 

General grant
How he got started

After graduation lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant was stationed I'm St. Louis Missouri he was shipped off for duty during the Mexican-American war grant served as a quartermaster he was credited for his bravey under fire

In the summer of 1853 grant was promoted to captain and transferred to Fort Humboldt on the Northern California coast where he had a run in with the forts commanding officer lieutenant Robert C. Bunchanan. On July 31 1854 grant resigned from the army amid allegations

Civil war

On April 13, 1861, Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. This act of rebellion sparked Ulysses S. Grant's patriotism, and he volunteered his military services. Again he was initially rejected for appointments, but with the aid of an Illinois congressman, he was appointed to command an unruly 21st Illinois volunteer regiment. Applying lessons that he'd learned from his commanders during the Mexican-American War, Grant saw that the regiment was combat-ready by September 1861

When Kentucky's fragile neutrality fell apart in the fall of 1861, Grant and his volunteers took the small town of Paducah, Kentucky, at the mouth of the Tennessee River. In February 1862, in a joint operation with the U.S. Navy, Grant's ground forces applied pressure on Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, taking them both—these battles are credited as the earliest significant Union victories of the American Civil War. After the assault on Fort Donelson, Grant earned the moniker "Unconditional Surrender Grant" and was promoted to major general of volunteers.

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