Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1885 — THE DEAD HERO. [ARTICLE]

THE DEAD HERO.

Pen and Pencil Sketches of His Busy and Eventful Life. Outline of His Career and Public Services from the Cradle to the Grave. The Great Commander’s Military Campaigns, from Belmont to Appomattox. BIOGRAPHICAL. From the Cradle to the Breaking Oat of the Rebellion. Ulysses Simpson Grant was born at Point Pleasant, Ohio, April 27, 1822. His ancestors were Scotch. In 1823 his parents removed to the village of Georgetown, Ohio, where his boyhood was passed. He entered West Point Military Academy In 1839, appointed by the Hon. Thomas L. Hamer, member of Congress. His name originally was Hiram Ulysses; but the appointment was blunderingly made out for Ulysses 8., and so it had to remain. The study In which he showed most proficiency during his course at the academy was mathematics. He graduated in 1843, ranking twenty-first in a ■class of thirty-nine, and was made a brevet Second Lieutenant of infantry, and attached as a supernumerary Lieutenant to the Fourth Regiment, which was stationed on the Missouri frontier. In the summer of 1845 the regiment was ordered to Texas, to join the army of Gen. Taylor. On Sept. 30 Grant was commissioned as a full Lieutenant. He first saw blood shed at Palo Alto, May 8, 1846, and took part also in the battles of Resaca de la Palma and Monterey, an* •the siege of Vera Cruz. In April, 1847, he was made Quaitermaster of his regiment, but still participated in all active operations; and after the battle of Molino del Key, Kept. 8, 1847, he was appointed on the field a First Lieutenant for his gallantry. In his report of the battle of Chapultepec (Sept. 13, 1847), Col. Garland, commanding the First Brigade, s id: "The rear of the enemy had made a stand behind a breastwork, from which tney were driven by detachments of the Second Artillery under Capt. Brooks and the Fourth Infantry uhder Lieut. Grant, supported by other regiments of the division, after a short but sharp conflict.” “I must not omit to call attention to Lieut. Grant, Fourth Infantry, who acquitted himself most nobly, upon several occasions, under my own observation.” Grant was brevetted Captain for his conduct at Chapultepec, to date from the battle. After the capture of the City of Mexico he returned with his regiment and was stationed first at Detroit, and then at Sackett's Harbor. In 1848 he married Miss Julia T. Dent, of St. Louis, sister of one of his classmates. In 1852 he accompanied his regiment to California and Oregon, and while at Fort Vancouver. Aug. 5, 1853, was commissioned full Captain. On July 31, 1851, he resigned, and removed to Ht. Louis, cultivating a tarm near that city and engaging in business as a real estate agent. In 1859 he was employed by his l ather in the leather trade at Galena, HL