FACSIMILE OF A LETTER WRITTEN BY ULYSSES
SIMPSON GRANT TO HIS FATHER

FACSIMILE OF GENERAL GRANT'S PROCLAMATION TO
THE CITIZENS OF PADUCAH

GENERAL ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT
From a photograph taken in 1865 by
Gutekunst, Philadelphia.

ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT
From a photograph taken during his second
term as President.




Letters of Ulysses S. Grant


[In 1843, at the age of twenty-one, Ulysses S. Grant was graduated
from West Point with the rank of brevet second lieutenant. He was
appointed to the 4th Infantry, stationed at Jefferson Barracks near
St. Louis. In May, 1844, he was ordered to the frontier of Louisiana
with the army of observation, while the annexation of Texas was
pending. The bill for the annexation of Texas was passed March 1,
1845; the war with Mexico began in April, 1846. Grant was promoted to
a first-lieutenancy September, 1847. The Mexican War closed in 1848.
Both this war and the Civil War he characterizes in his _Memoirs_ as