USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hiram Ulysses Grant was stuck with the name Ulysses S. Grant due to a mistake by a benefactor on his application form to West Point.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery.

Detailed explanation-3: -His phantom middle initial is the result of an error from Ohio Congressman Thomas Hamer, who accidentally wrote the future general’s name as “Ulysses S. Grant” when he nominated him to attend West Point. Despite Grant’s best efforts to correct the record, the name stuck, and he eventually accepted it as his own.

Detailed explanation-4: -That’s why Jesse arranged for Grant to go to West Point when he turned 17, and that’s where the “S” came from in Grant’s name. A simple clerical error listed Grant as “Ulysses S. Grant.” Instead of correcting the error, because he was afraid he would be kicked out of the school, Grant changed his name.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ulysses S. Grant is best known as the Union general who led the United States to victory over the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. As a two-term President, he is typically dismissed as weak and ineffective; historians have often ranked Grant’s presidency near the bottom in American history.