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The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Stop the Runaways--$1000 reward. (search)
e Atlanta Confederacy: Ulysses S. Grant was appointed Cadet from Ohio in 1839, being then seventeen years of age, and graduated in 1843, and was commissioned 1st July, 1843, Brevet 2d Lieutenant 4th Infantry United States Army. Transferred to 7th Infantry; in 4th Infantry again, November, 1845; Brevet 1st Lieutenant "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey," 8th September, declined; Regimental Quartermaster, April, 1847; 1st Lieutenant, September, 1847; Brevet Captain "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chepultepec, 13th September, 1847;" Full Captain, August, 1858; resigned 31st July, 1854. Since his resignation from the army nothing is known by me of his occupation until the present war. I only know now that he is the most formidable man that is opposed to us, by odds. Grant is now in his 42d year, quite young to be at the head of all the armies in the United States; but I believe all, or most of Napoleon's Marshals were not