where ulysses s grant go to school?
United States Military Academy
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 When Grant was 17 , Congressman Thomas L. Hamer nominated him to the United States Military Academy at West Point , New York . Hamer mistakenly wrote down the name as " Ulysses S. Grant of Ohio " , and this became his adopted name . His nickname became " Sam " among army colleagues at the academy since the initials " U.S. " also stood for " Uncle Sam " . As he later recalled it , " a military life had no charms for me " ; he was lax in his studies , but he achieved above @-@ average grades in mathematics and geology . Quiet by nature , he established a few intimate friends , including Frederick Tracy Dent and Rufus Ingalls . Grant developed a reputation as a fearless and expert horseman known as a horse whisperer , setting an equestrian high @-@ jump record that stood for almost 25 years . He also studied under Romantic artist Robert Walter Weir and produced nine surviving artworks . He graduated in 1843 , ranking 21st in a class of 39 . Glad to leave the academy , his plan was to resign his commission after his four @-@ year term of duty . Despite his excellent horsemanship , he was not assigned to the cavalry ( assignments were determined by class rank , not aptitude ) , but to the 4th Infantry Regiment . He was made regimental quartermaster , managing supplies and equipment , with the rank of brevet second lieutenant . 

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 This time on the frontier ended in July 1889 when the family moved to Washington , D.C. , where Douglas attended the Force Public School . His father was posted to San Antonio , Texas , in September 1893 . While there MacArthur attended the West Texas Military Academy , where he was awarded the gold medal for " scholarship and deportment " . He also participated on the school tennis team , and played quarterback on the school football team and shortstop on its baseball team . He was named valedictorian , with a final year average of 97 @.@ 33 out of 100 . MacArthur 's father and grandfather unsuccessfully sought to secure Douglas a presidential appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point , first from President Grover Cleveland and then from President William McKinley . After these two rejections , he passed an examination for an appointment from Congressman Theobald Otjen , scoring 93 @.@ 3 on the test . He later wrote : " It was a lesson I never forgot . Preparedness is the key to success and victory . " 

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 Sheppard was born in Waynesboro , Virginia on March 8 , 1865 , to William Henry Sheppard , Sr. and Fannie Frances Sheppard ( née Martin ) , a free " dark mulatto " , a month before the end of the American Civil War . No records exist to confirm William Sr. ' s status as a slave or freedman , but it has been speculated that he may have been among the slaves forced to serve the Confederacy as Union troops marched upon the South . William Sr. was a barber , and the family has been described as the closest to middle class that blacks could have achieved given the time and place . At age twelve , William Jr. became a stable boy for a white family several miles away while continuing to attend school ; he remembered his two @-@ year stay fondly and maintained written correspondence with the family for many years . Sheppard next worked as a waiter to put himself through the newly created Hampton Institute , where Booker T. Washington was among his instructors in a program that allowed students to work during the day and attend classes at night . A significant influence on his appreciation for native cultures was the " Curiosity Room " , in which the school 's founder maintained a collection of Native Hawaiian and Native American works of art . Later in life he would collect artifacts from the Congo , specifically those of the Kuba , and bring them back for this room , as evidenced by his letters home , such as " [ i ] t was on the first of September , 1890 that William H. Sheppard addressed a letter to General Samuel Armstrong , Hampton , From Stanley Pool , Africa , that he had many artifacts , spears , idols , etc . , and he was ' ... saving them for the Curiosity Room at Hampton ' " . 

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 As a young man , Thomas Jefferson read many books , including Paradise Lost , Tristram Shandy and the Life of Johnson . John taught his son Greek and Latin . Every summer the family rented a house in Seaton Carew , where Thomas Jefferson often hunted , fished and went horse riding . He attended a preparatory school in Ferrybridge for four years before moving to Durham School at the age of 12 , which his father and grandfather had also attended . 

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 The death of his father prevented Washington from an education at England 's Appleby School , as his older brothers had received . He achieved the equivalent of an elementary school education from a variety of tutors , as well as from a school run by an Anglican clergyman in or near Fredericksburg . Talk of securing an appointment in the Royal Navy for him when he was 15 was dropped when his widowed mother objected . 
