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llan becomes colonel of the twenty-first Illinois regiment marches it to Missouri is made brigadier-general of volunteers takes command of the District of southeast Missouri Seizes Paducah Sends a force to drive rebels into Arkansas makes a demonstration upon Belmont the demonstration converted into an attack battle of Belmont Grant's success enemy reenforced Grant cuts his way out results of Belmont. Hiram Ulysses Grant was born on the 27th of April, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Clermont county, Ohio. His father was of Scotch descent, and a dealer in leather. Ulysses was the eldest of six children. He entered the Military Academy at West Point at the age of seventeen, the congressman who procured his appointment giving his name by mistake as Ulysses S. Grant. Simpson was the maiden name of his mother, and was also borne by one of his younger brothers: this doubtless occasioned the error. Young Grant applied to the authorities at West Point and to the Secretary of War