Mrs. Eddy Mentioned Them July 27, 1957 Issue

Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1885

[Mentioned in Science and Health, p. 492]

Ulysses S. Grant , eighteenth President of the United States, owed his election to the United States, owed his election to the distinction he won in the Civil War. Before this war, he disliked Army life. He found his West Point years "about five times as long as Ohio years" on his father's farm.

On his first assignment with the Fourth Infantry in St. Louis, he applied for an assistant professorship in mathematics at West Point. But before anything was worked out, his regiment was ordered to the Mexican War. After the storming of Chapultepec, he received this citation: "Lieut. Grant, 4th Infantry, acquitted himself most nobly upon several occasions." Still he had no enthusiasm for the Army, and after further garrison service, during which time he won his captaincy, he resigned from it.

After the fall of Fort Sumter, Grant, who had been working in his father's leather store, joined the Army. He was made colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment of Illinois Infantry. From the first, he demonstrated ability and skill as a leader. His capture of Fort Donelson was a turning point in the war, and his message to the Confederate general, who asked for an armistice, "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted," led to the nickname "Unconditional Surrender Grant."

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