![]() Assigned as the regimental quartermaster officer of the 4th U.S. Grant, this conflict provided a great deal of combat experience, because he fought in every major battle except Buena Vista in February 1847. Polk, war was justified after all the diplomatic offers and inducements failed because American soldiers were ambushed and killed in the new state of Texas.įor Lt. This meant war for the Republic of Mexico. The old general seldom wore a uniform and not at all formal, and for West Point graduates accustomed to regulations, parade-ground dress standards and rigid discipline, to see Taylor wearing civilian attire with a large planation hat was indeed strange, but as for Grant, "There was no man living who I admired and respected more highly."īy the spring of 1846, most of the federal Regular Army was in camp at Corpus Christi when orders came to march 130 miles south the Rio Grande. Zachary Taylor, later president of the United States. Posted in Texas, he served for one of the great American generals of all time, a leader he would replicate as a role model, Maj. Though secretly engaged to Julia, he would not see her for nearly four years. As events unfolded, America political figures and many citizens envisioned a nation coast to coast, but diplomacy eventually failed and soon war was the result.įor young Ulysses, war and politics was not as important to him as gaining the hand of Julia Dent before he shipped out to Texas in May 1844. Louis in 1843 after graduation, witnessed this national drama of the westward push of a new nation. Infantry at Jefferson Barracks, just south of St. Lieutenant Grant stationed with the 4th U.S. Grant, though against the war personally, served to the best of his ability as a matter of duty. ![]() This national attitude was a major cause of the war with Mexico and had tragic results for many. The political, cultural and social era of the 1830s birthed a mission transcribed as Manifest Destiny, America's expansion westward into the lands occupied by native tribes and the Republic of Mexico. "For myself," Grant wrote later about the United States war against Mexico, "I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation." War 1846-48 that remained with him until his death and echoes down the hall as generations have come and gone. As a young lieutenant, he formed an opinion about the Mexico-U.S. They are an amazing literary accomplishment but even more so, his candor, honesty and simplicity are breathtaking at times. Grant is known for even today, are his extraordinary accounts of his life published 1885 after his death, The Personal Memoirs of U.S. One of the remarkable achievements Ulysses S.
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