Ulysses S. Grant before the Civil War

US Grant descendants

merry — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:29:24 +0000

Ulysses S Grant 2011

merry — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:53:38 +0000

Great Grant 2011. Maybe not accurate, but entertaining.

west coast

merry — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:57:21 +0000

We find when we actually visit the places
where Ulysses S. Grant lived, we are
able to picture him more vividly and
understand him more clearly.

So Rory (the writer/researcher) & I (the
webmaster/researcher) visited Fort Vancouver
near Portland, Oregon, to see where
Ulysses Grant lived in 1852-1853.

We then drove down the scenic coast to
Fort Humboldt near Eureka, California –
and tried to imagine Grant’s loneliness there
in 1854 before he retired from the Army and
moved back to Missouri.

1885 Ulysses Grant time capsule

merry — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:11:40 +0000

Interior and Exterior photographs by William Meyer of the Grant Cottage in Wilton, NY near Saratoga Springs.

1885 Ulysses S Grant Cottage

merry — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:05:57 +0000

U. S. Grant Collection

merry — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:46:50 +0000

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Ulysses S. Grant Antebellum Timeline

merry — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:47:32 +0000

ULYSSES S. GRANT TIMELINE

Jesse Grant, Ulysses’s father rare timeline, map
1822 Ulysses Grant’s Birthplace: Point Pleasant, Ohio map, video
1823-1836 Georgetown, Ohio timeline (detailed)
1836-1837 Winter in Maysville, Kentucky photos
1837-1838 attends a local subscription school
1838-1839 Ripley, Ohio Grant Family & Anti-Slavery
1839 travels Ohio River to the Hudson River
1839-1843 West Point, New York
1841 Summer 10-weeks in Bethel, Ohio
1843 Graduation from US Military Academy
1843 September 30 2nd LT in 4th Infantry, U. S. Army at Jefferson Barracks
1844 Visits parents in Bethel, Ohio
1844 May Visits Julia Dent in Carondelet, Missouri
1844 June Stationed at Natchitoches, Louisiana
1845 April Visits Julia Dent during 20-day leave of absence
1845 July Stationed at New Orleans, Louisiana
1845 September Travels with Infantry to Corpus Christi, Texas
1845 September 30 Promoted to 2nd Lt
1845 March 11-28 March to the Rio Grande
1846 April 23 -1848 February 2 Mexican War:
1846 May 8 Battle of Palo Alto [Brownsville] Texas
1846 May 9 Battle of Resaca de la Palma Texas
1846 August Carmargo; appointed regimental quartermaster
1846 September 21–23 Battle of Monterrey Nuevo León, Mexico
1846 December mouth of the Rio Grande with regiment
1847 March 9-29 Battle of Veracruz Veracruz, Mexico to Mexico City
1847 April 18 Battle of Cerro Gordo
1847 August 19-20 Battle of Contreras el peñon, near Mexico City
1847 August 20 Battle of Churubusco near Mexico City
1847 September 6 Battle of Molino Del Rey near Mexico City
1847 September 12-13 Battle of Chapultepec west of Mexico City
1847 September 13-14 Battle for Mexico City
1847 September 14-October 12 Siege of Puebla Puebla, Mexico
1848 February 2 Mexican War officially ends
1848 Spring Tacubaya, Mexico
1848 May mountain climbed part of Popocatepetl, SE of Mexico City
1848 May Visited caves in Mexico
1848 June Regiment to Mississippi; Grant given leave from service to be married
1848 August 22 Marriage to Julia Boggs Dent in St Louis, Missouri
1848 to mid-October Honeymoon: steamboat St Louis to Kentucky and Ohio
1848 November travels to Detroit and learns of reassignment to Sackets Harbor, New York
1849 April reassigned to Fort Brady near Detroit
1851-1852 reassigned to Sackets Harbor
1852 travels by ship from Fort Columbus in New York City to San Francisco, California via Isthmus of Panama
1852 stationed at Benicia and visits Knight’s Ferry, California
1852-1853 stationed at Columbia Barracks [Fort Vancouver] in Oregon/Washington Territory
1853 August 5 U.S. Army Promotion to Captain
1853 September 24 left for San Fransico
1853 October 11 recv’d order to report to Fort Humboldt in California
1853 October-1854 January – on [unknown] detached service
1853 October 30 – arrives back to Fort Vancouver from San Francisco
1853 after Nov 26 – arrived back to San Francisco
1854 January 5 arrives at Fort Humboldt, Eureka, California: the following details are to contemplate his state of mind before resigning from the Army in April ’54
1854 Winter several small-sized dance parties at Fort Humboldt
1854 Feb 2 writes to Julia “I have interests at other[places] which I can not help thinking about day and night.”
before 1854 Feb 5 requested orders to go home; waiting for reply by mail
1854 Feb 5 troublesome-tooth drawn with difficulty, face swollen
1854 Feb 5 writes, wishing for recruiting service if no other way to go home
1854 Feb 6 writes, living with Col Buchanan and the Dr., with servant hire
1854 March 6 writes “almost tempted to resign…it would only require the certainty of a moderate competency…” and that he is “staying in the house” and “gets so tired and out of patience for the lonliness [sic] of this place.”
1854 March 25 writes, living with Mr. Hunt, “having each two comfortable rooms, plastered and with a brick chimney, to each….Except an occational [sic] ride of a few miles on horsback [sic] none of us go out at present…”
1854 April 11 accepts Commission as Captain
1854 April 11 sends letter of resignation from Army
1854 May leaves Eureka, California for San Francisco
1854 June 1-14 Steamboat Sierra Nevada from San Francisco to San Juan Del Sur Nicaragua
1854 June 14-16 crossed 12 miles Nicaragua Isthmus by carriage, 55 miles across Lake Nicaragua, and 125 miles down the San Juan River by boat reaching Punta Arenas, port erected by Cornelius Vanderbilt, across the river from Greytown.
1854 June 17 11:00AM Steamship Prometheus from Punta Arenas to NYC
1854 stayed at The Astor House in Manhattan and traveled to Watertown, New York
1854 Bethel, Ohio
1854 Lived with in-laws at the White Haven farm in Carondelet, Missouri
c. 1854 set up coal-burning fireplaces at Dent house
1855 Summer Grant family moved to Wish-ton-wish in Carondelet, Missouri
1855 July 4 daughter Nellie born in Carondelet, Missouri
1855 Early Summer-1856 Late Winter
1856 Spring-1856 Autumn
1856 September Missouri
1856 October-1857 January Hardscrabble cabin in Carondelet, Missouri
1856 November 4 Grant voted for Buchanan “because he knew Fremont”
c. 1854 or c. 1857 Winter Hired men to clear land, split wood, and he hauled the wood to St Louis, Jefferson Barracks, and sold posts to the mine.
1857 January 14 Julia Dent Grant’s mother died; Fred. Dent Sr. moves to St Louis
1857 Jan-1858 Oct Grant manages White Haven farm in Carondelet, Missouri
1857 Grant requests employment as a commissary clerk to drive beef cattle and issue rations for an expedition to New Mexico, but they couldn’t use him
1857 December pawned a gold watch in St Louis
1858 February 6 son Jessie Root Grant, Jr. born in Carondelet, Missouri
1858 March 21 wrote a letter from White Haven about Autumn crop
1858 Spring rented out Hardscrabble in Carondelet, Missouri and moved into White Haven
1858 April 7 letter to J. O’Fallon about banking matters for Fred. Dent Sr.
1858 July or August St Louis: attended political speech
1858 August-September Illness of Grant and his family, visiting guests, and 7 slaves
1858 October 1 Grant writes that he plans on working in his father’s business
1858 Nov 1 Grant sells Carondelet land for his father-in-law
1859 January rented backroom of Boggs house in St Louis
1858-59 Winter Partners with Boggs Real Estate business w office in McClellan & Hillyer law firm
1859 Grant purchases a house on Lynch St in St Louis but the title isn’t good
c. 1859 March Grant purchases a house on Barton St St Louis, and Grant’s wife and children joined him from White Haven
1859 March 29 Grant freed his slave William Jones; witnesses McClellan & Hillyer
1859 August 15 applied for County Engineer position in St Louis
1859 October 24 wrote from St Louis about brother looking after land in Texas
1860 March 14 arrives by train to Covington, KY
1860 March plans to take boat back to St Louis
1860 April-May moves with family to Galena Illinois
1860 works in father Jesse Grant’s leather shop in Galena
1860-61 Winter travels on business to Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin
1861 April 18 speaks in Galena to recruit for war
1861 April 25 as a civilian, departs with Galena recruits to Springfield, Illinois
1861 May 8 mustering officer in Springfield
1861 May 24 wrote to Washington DC requesting an appointment
1861 August 7 Brig-General of volunteers
1861 September 4 Command headquartered at Cairo
1861 Oct. 23 backdated to June 15 Appointed Col. of 21st Reg. Illinois Volunteers
1861 *** details of Civil War left for other resources
Washington DC
to be continued…

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1885 Grant family at Mt McGregor, NY

merry — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:36:47 +0000

Autumn is here, and unless you’re preparing for an exciting winter near the equator, or love the snow, it is a sad time knowing it is the beginning of a season of fewer days outdoors. It was the Autumn of 1884 when Ulysses Grant went to his doctor for the pain he felt in his throat. He was living in New York City at the time. For Grant, this season ushered in the work of writing his Memoirs.

His last winter project lasted until his death in the summer of 1885. The above pictures taken at the cottage in Mt McGregor, New York show the Grant family during his last days.

A Tobacco Advertising Card

merry — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:53:01 +0000

John Brown December 2009: 150 years since his execution

merry — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:13:28 +0000

John Brown — the abolitionist. What does HE have to do with Ulysses S. Grant?

Here is Ulysses Grant’s quote from his Memoirs:

[1810-1812] in a few years [Jesse Grant, Ulysses's father] returned to Deerfield and worked for, and lived in the family of a Mr. Brown, the father of John Brown—”whose body lies moldering in the grave, while his soul -goes marching on.” I have often heard my father speak of John Brown, particularly since the events of Harper’s Ferry. Brown was a boy when they lived in the same house, but he knew him afterward, and regarded him as a man of great purity of character, of high moral and physical courage, but a fanatic and extremist in whatever he advocated. It was certainly the act of an insane man to attempt the invasion of the South and the overthrow of slavery with less than twenty men…”

We visited the location of the tannery and house where Jesse lived with the Brown family. The house is still in existence, and we are debating whether there is anything left of the old tannery in the two barns that are on the property.

The house used to have double barn doors in the back that opened to a tack room. I could almost hear Owen Brown, John Brown’s father, tapping and working away in that room, which since has been converted to a family room.

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