Why US Grant Won The Civil War

General Grant, who was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant Ohio, greatly helped win the Civil war by serving as the Union General. He was entrusted with command of all U.S. armies in 1864, by President Lincoln. And he also helped restore peace after the war was over. He had an uneventful childhood and was not a standout in his youth, shy and reserved, but was a remarkably skilled horseman. U. S. Grant’s father, Jesse Root Grant was a tanner, but as a boy U. S. Grant took no interest in taking up his father’s business. Instead, when he turned 17, Grant’s father arranged for him to join the United States Military Academy at West Point. His original name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but the Academy made a mistake and thought his name was Ulysses Simpson Grant; he kept the name not wanting to be rejected by the school. He had average grades and did not …show more content…
Louis Missouri. The next year, he met Julia Dent, the sister of one of his West Point classmates, who he later married and had four children, after participating in the Mexican American War. Serving in the military kept him very separated from his family, so in 1854 he resigned. Now that he was back at his wife’s family’s plantation, he attempted farming and real estate but did not succeed at either one. Then in 1860 the Grants moved to Galena, Illinois where he worked at his father’s leather goods shop. Then the Civil War began in 1861. U.S. Grant became a colonel for the 21st Illinois volunteers. Later that year, President Lincoln appointed Grant a brigadier general. Grant was victorious when his troops captured Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Grant later captured Vicksburg, Mississippi, which was a vital stronghold for the confederate army because they needed access to the Mississippi River for necessary supplies. Subsequently, he was appointed Lieutenant General by President Lincoln, and was now in command of all Union