What Is Ulysses S. Grant's Legacy

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Ulysses S. Grant dedicated his life to servicing the United States of America. He was not only the eighteenth President of the United States, but also a General of the Army in the American Civil War. The remembrance of Grant’s presidency is less than favorable, but he is hailed as a triumphant general having won a great war. His legacy is primarily defined by his military career and, to a broader sense, his life as a whole. Before joining the military, Grant lived in Georgetown, Illinois. He was born as Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, as the son of Hannah Simpson Grant and Jesse Root. In 1839, Grant entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where, as a result of a clerical error, his name was mistakenly made Ulysses Simpson Grant. Although Grant was an “average student at West Point, he performed especially well in mathematics and finished first in his class in horsemanship.” Once Grant graduated from West Point in 1843, he was assigned to infantry and stationed near St. Louis, …show more content…
Grant believed in the cause of the American Civil War, and so he offered his services. Since Grant had the most military training and experience in Galena, Illinois, he held a town meeting in regards to enlistment and the beginning of training recruits. Afterwards, Grant was “appointed colonel and charged with commanding the Twenty-first Volunteer Infantry Regiment by Illinois governor Richard Yates.” He was even later promoted to brigadier general when “President Abraham Lincoln expanded the Union army in August 1861.” Grant successfully led his troops in campaigns in Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee. One such campaign was the Battle of Fort Henry, which was the first important victory not only for Ulysses S. Grant, but also the Union. On February 6, 1862, “seventeen thousand Union troops under General Ulysses S. Grant, supported by gunboats under Commodore Andrew Foote, moved by water against Fort Henry on the Tennessee
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