Download History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Ulysses S. Grant AudioBook Free
In Charles River Editors' Background for Kids series, your kids can find out about history's most important people and incidents within an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book could keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Inside the 19th century, one of the surest ways to rise to prominence in American world was to be a war hero, like Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison. But few could have predicted such a future for Hiram Ulysses Offer, who was simply a career soldier with little experience in combat and a failed businessman when the Civil Warfare broke out in 1861. However, while all eye were fixed on the Eastern Theater at places like Manassas, Richmond, the Shenandoah Valley, and Antietam, Offer went in regards to a steady rise up the rates through some successes in the West. His success at Fort Donelson, in which his conditions to the doomed Confederate garrison earned him the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Offer, could be considered the first major Union success of the war, and Grant's popularity and ranking only grew from then on at battlefields like Shiloh and Vicksburg. On the way, Grant nearly dropped prey to armed service politics and the belief that he was at fault for the near beat at Shiloh, but Leader Lincoln famously defended him, remarking, "I can't spare this man. He battles." Lincoln's steadfastness guaranteed that Grant's victories out West continued to pile up, and after Vicksburg and Chattanooga, Offer had effectively guaranteed Union control of the claims of Kentucky and Tennessee as well as the whole Mississippi River.
