Presentation of Wayne Issleb, playing the role of General U.S. Grant.
But, he loved horses. He trained them By the time he was 12 he had quite a horse business going.
Grant went to West Point, even though he really didn't want to and graduated in 1843. He was sent to Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis. While at the military academy he had become a friend with Frederick Dent from Missouri and James Longstreet from Georgia.
He started going to his friend's home and met his sister Julia and became enamored of her and they eventually married. However, his father did not attend because the Dents owned slaves and he was a strict abolitionist.
However, soon afterward, he was transferred to Oregon Territory while his family remained elsewhere. This is when he started drinking.
It was soon after that that he resigned from the Army and returned home. That trip from the West to home, via New York, took seven months as he went around the tip of South America. By the time he got to New York City, he had used up all his money. He had to borrow $70 to get back home to St. Louis.
From 1855 to 1857, he built a small farm at a place he called "Hardscrabble" and had a series of failed jobs. In 1860, he asked his father for help was turned down because he was living in a slave state.
His Father Hated Anything Slave. --Old Secesh
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