Ulysses S. Grant Word Search

ARMY – Grant served in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War and rose to commanding general of all Union armies during the Civil War.

BATTLE – Grant fought in numerous major Civil War battles including Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga, demonstrating aggressive tactics and determination that led to Union victories.

CABINET – Grant’s presidential cabinet faced several corruption scandals, including the Whiskey Ring, though Grant himself was not personally implicated in the various schemes.

CAMPAIGN – Grant led military campaigns across the western and eastern theaters, and later ran two successful presidential campaigns in eighteen sixty-eight and eighteen seventy-two.

CIGAR – Grant became famous for constantly smoking cigars, reportedly receiving thousands from admirers after Shiloh, which may have contributed to his later throat cancer.

CIVIL WAR – The eighteen sixty-one to eighteen sixty-five conflict between Union and Confederate states where Grant emerged as the North’s most successful general.

COMMANDER – Grant was promoted to lieutenant general and given command of all Union armies in eighteen sixty-four, coordinating multiple fronts against Confederate forces.

CONGRESS – As president, Grant worked with Congress on Reconstruction policies, civil rights legislation, and faced investigations into various administration scandals throughout his terms.

GENERAL – Grant achieved the rank of lieutenant general, the first since George Washington, and later became the first full general in American history.

GRANT – His family surname, adopted when Congressman Thomas Hamer mistakenly nominated him to West Point as Ulysses S. Grant instead of Hiram Ulysses Grant.

HIRAM – Grant’s birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, given at birth in eighteen twenty-two, but he later dropped Hiram after the West Point error.

INFANTRY – Grant commanded infantry units throughout his military career, utilizing coordinated infantry assaults and siege tactics to overwhelm Confederate positions and secure strategic victories.

JULIA – Julia Dent Grant was his devoted wife whom he married in eighteen forty-eight; she supported him through military struggles and White House years.

MEMOIRS – Grant wrote his acclaimed Personal Memoirs while dying of throat cancer, completing them days before death to provide financially for his family.

MILITARY – Grant’s military career spanned from West Point graduation in eighteen forty-three through his eighteen sixty-nine retirement as commanding general of the army.

NORTH – Grant fought for the Northern Union states, becoming their greatest military hero and helping preserve the United States during the Civil War.

OHIO – Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio in eighteen twenty-two and raised in Georgetown, Ohio, maintaining connections to his home state.

PRESIDENT – Grant served as the eighteenth President of the United States from eighteen sixty-nine to eighteen seventy-seven, focusing on Reconstruction and protecting African American rights.

RICHMOND – The Confederate capital of Virginia that Grant’s armies besieged and captured in April eighteen sixty-five, effectively ending the Civil War days later.

SHILOH – The April eighteen sixty-two Tennessee battle where Grant’s forces survived a surprise Confederate attack and won a costly but strategically important Union victory.

SURRENDER – Grant accepted Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House on April ninth, eighteen sixty-five, offering generous terms to soldiers.

ULYSSES – His adopted first name, taken from his middle name after the West Point registration error, inspired by the Greek hero from Homer’s Odyssey.

UNION – The United States forces Grant commanded during the Civil War, fighting to preserve the nation and end slavery in the rebellious Southern states.

VICKSBURG – Grant’s greatest strategic victory, capturing this Mississippi River fortress in July eighteen sixty-three, splitting the Confederacy and controlling vital supply routes.