Our Great Commander (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Our Great Commander In connection with his entrance to West Point, Grant twice changed his name. Up to that time he had been known as Hiram Ulysses, or 11. Ulysses Grant. On a trunk he was to take to West Point the maker, after the fashion of those days, formed three large initials with brass-headed nails. When he saw these, and realized what the cadets would do with the letters "H. U. G.", Grant changed the order of his given names and registered at West Point as Ulysses H. Grant. Meanwhile, Congressman Hamer, in his appointment papers, had guessed at Grant s middle letter, and knowing that his mother was a Simpson made it S. and it was entered in this way on the records of the War Department. Learning of the trouble and the delay which a correction would involve, young Grant said, "so let it be", and without further opposition to fate or to friends he settled down to live with the name which he was to place far up at the top among those his country delights to honor Ulysses Simpson Grant. Concerning his smoking habits, General F. D. Grant tells us that his father was an occasional smoker only until the Battle of Fort Donelson. At that time he visited one of the War vessels to call on Admiral Foote, who had been wounded. The Admiral gave the General a cigar. He had hardly lit it when he received an urgent summons to come ashore and meet an attack. He hurried to the front with the cigar in his mouth, and became so engrossed in the struggle that he kept it in his possession during the entire engagement. In reporting this battle some newspaper man stated that General Grant appeared on the field with a cigar in his mouth, and the country got that statement together with the most important news of the fall of Fort Donelson. The result was that a flood of cigars from everywhere poured in upon the General. He soon had received eleven thousand. To reduce this surplus he gave away and smoked away, the second method establishing the habit which continued throughout his life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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