There was a mishap in college registrations. The clerk recorded him as Ulysses Simpson GRant. If he wanted his name changed he would have to re-enroll next year, so he kept it.
When Grant applied for west point, the congressman recommending him forgot Hiram's middle name and thought it was his mother's maiden name, so he put Ulysses Simpson Grant. When Ulysses arrived and...
It was a tradition at West Point that cadets would be called by their initials (as 'JEB' Stuart). Grant did not like being called 'HUG' - he thought it was embarrassing.We don't know for certain when...
His father asked a senator he knew to fill out the paperwork so Ulysses could go to West Point. Because this senator didn't take time to ask he wrote Ulysses's name down wrong as Ulysses S. Grant.
The Northern public liked the idea of the initials 'US', as it chimed with 'United States' and also 'Unconditional Surrender'.Also there has always been a suggestion that he was christened with a...