The “S” in Ulysses S. Grant Stands for Nothing
The man who saved the United States was named U.S. Grant by a clerical error. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Ohio on April 27, 1822. That was his name for the first seventeen years of his life. In 1839, Congressman Thomas Hamer submitted Grant’s appointment to West Point. Hamer got the name wrong. […]