After tackling more difficult tasks, Grant won major victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February 1862, and he became a national figure known as “Unconditional Surrender” Grant. He was first appointed to train a volunteer regiment in Illinois. Grant had to earn his military place in the Civil War. But Lee resigned his army commission on April 20, and he accepted command of Confederate troops in Virginia.ġ0. After the war started on April 12, 1861, Lee was offered command of the United States army. Lee was briefly in the United States army at the Civil War’s start. Although he also fought with distinction in the Mexican-American War, Grant was moved to several military posts and resigned from the Army in 1854 without explanation.ĩ.
Grant struggled with his first military career. In 1852, Lee was named as superintendent of West Point.Ĩ. First as an engineer and then as a tactical commander under Winfield Scott in the Mexican-American War. Lee’s star was continually rising in the U.S. Coming from humble backgrounds, Grant struggled with some courses at the academy, but he astounded his classmates with this ability as a horseman.ħ. Grant was an average student at West Point. He was called the “Marble Model” because of his drive and focus at the military academy.Ħ. Lee graduated second in his class at West Point. A mistake was made on his application to West Point by a congressman who nominated Grant, who listed his name as Ulysses S. The future general and president was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. Mary Anna Custis was also Martha Washington’s great-granddaughter.Ĥ.
Grant, a general greater than Lee, described his feelings upon meeting Lee in. When Lee made his intentions known to marry Mary Anna Custis, his future father-in-law objected, because Light Horse Harry Lee had fallen on hard times. We already have a better way to look at Robert E.
The family of Lee’s future wife didn’t think he was good enough for her. Grant said his grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War at Bunker Hill.ģ. Grant grew up in Ohio and his father was a tanner.
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