. The life and campaigns of U. S. Grant, from his boyhood to the surrender of Lee . LIFE AKD CAMPAIGNS OP LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT. CHAPTER I. THE FAMILY AND BOYHOOD OF GENERAL GRANT. The Grants Emigrate from Scotland.—Their Home in America.—The Removal tothe Far West.—Residence in Ohio.—The Orphan Boy.—The Widow takes herFamily to Maysville, Kentucky.—Jesse Marries.—The New Home.—Birth ofUlysses.—The Origin of his Name.—Anecdotes of the Boy.—Struggles to Se-cure an Education.—The Appointment to a Cadetship in the United StatesMilitary Academy at West Point. Lieutenant-General Gran
. The life and campaigns of U. S. Grant, from his boyhood to the surrender of Lee . LIFE AKD CAMPAIGNS OP LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT. CHAPTER I. THE FAMILY AND BOYHOOD OF GENERAL GRANT. The Grants Emigrate from Scotland.—Their Home in America.—The Removal tothe Far West.—Residence in Ohio.—The Orphan Boy.—The Widow takes herFamily to Maysville, Kentucky.—Jesse Marries.—The New Home.—Birth ofUlysses.—The Origin of his Name.—Anecdotes of the Boy.—Struggles to Se-cure an Education.—The Appointment to a Cadetship in the United StatesMilitary Academy at West Point. Lieutenant-General Grant is of Scotch than a century ago, his ancestor came to the shoresof America, then comparatively a wilderness, and settled inPennsylvania; while a brother who emigrated with himwent on to Canada. By honest industry, our hardy pioneer supported hisgrowing family upon his forest-girdled clearing, until theRevolutionary War called him to its field of strife. Afterbravely following the flag of the rising Republic, he re-turned with the dawn of peace to his h
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