RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT ULYSSES S GRANT
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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He became president.
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He became a famous Civil War general.
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There was a mistake on his application.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Grant always disliked his first name and was commonly known by his middle name. He wanted to swap his first and middle names when he entered the Academy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ulysses wasn’t his real first name. 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. And as with President Harry S. Truman, the middle initial “S” doesn’t stand for anything.
Detailed explanation-3: -When Buckner asked for terms, Grant replied, “No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.” The Confederates surrendered, and President Lincoln promoted Grant to Major General of Volunteers. The Battle of Fort Donelson earned Grant the nickname “Unconditional Surrender Grant.”
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.