Everything you need to understand or teach Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant.
Ulysses S. Grant was born in Pennsylvania in 1822. His father was strict and had definite ideas about many things, including Grant's education. When Grant was a teenager, his father announced that he'd applied to West Point on Grant's behalf and that Grant would be attending college there. Grant didn't want to go, fearing that he might fail, but admitted that he easily passed the entrance examination. He didn't often apply himself...
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