Feuding with John McClernand at Vicksburg, and deliberately sending McClernand's men into a doomed attack that cost many lives.
Misjudging the situation at the Battle of the Crater (Petersburg), aborting the attack by a well-rehearsed black brigade and ordering an unrehearsed unit to go in. They were cut to bits.
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His original name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. He didn't want to or mean to change it. When he went to a military academy, they signed him up as that. Since then, he was known as Ulysses S. Grant.
Ulysses S. Grant.
Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S Grant's goal's were to be president and win the Civil war.
Ulysses s grant did become president later on