"Ulysses s. grant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Ulysses Grant was born in Ohio in 1822, and at seventeen entered West Point, where his name was registered Ulysses S. Grant, and as such he was ever after known. He served in the Mexican War, and afterward engaged in business of various sorts till the opening of the Civil War, when he was made colonel of the Twenty-first Illinois Regiment, and then commander of the district of southeast ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... Ulysses S. Grant, no name in America has come from comparative obscurity into national eminence in so short a time ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume II. No. 2, November, 1884 • Various |
