Fun Fact of the Day

Ulysses S. Grant was actually born as Hiram Ulysses Grant and used that name for the first 17 years of his life until a clerical error occurred at West Point. Grant was nominated by Ohio Congressman Thomas Hamer to West Point in 1839, who accidentally wrote Grant’s name in the application as “Ulysses S. Grant.” The confusion stemmed from the fact that Grant often went by Ulysses, rather than Hiram.