Not wanting to be rejected by the school, he changed his name on the spot. A clerical error had listed him as Ulysses S. When Grant was 17, his father arranged for him to enter the United States Military Academy at West Point. He hated the idea of working in his father's tannery business-a fact that his father begrudgingly acknowledged. Shy and reserved, he took after his mother rather than his outgoing father.
He did, however, show great aptitude as a horseman in his youth. A year after Grant was born, his family moved to Georgetown, Ohio, and had what he described as an "uneventful" childhood. He was the first son of Jesse Root Grant, a tanner and businessman, and Hannah Simpson Grant. Grant," came after he joined the military. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, near the mouth of the Big Indian Creek at the Ohio River. After leaving the presidency, he commissioned Mark Twain to publish his best-selling memoirs. Though Grant was highly scrupulous, his administration was tainted with scandal. In 1869, at age 46, Grant became the youngest president in U.S. armies in 1864 and relentlessly pursued the enemy during the Civil War. Grant was entrusted with the command of all U.S.
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