Informative and based on fact biography for children and young adults of our most colorful Civil War generals and presidents...From dust jacket flap: "At the age of nine, young Ulysses Grant decided that he wanted a horse of his own, so he went to the circus in his home town in Ohio and won five dollars by riding a trick pony. By the next summer, after carefully saving his money, he was able to buy his horse and start up a hauling business. His father, however, was determined that his son should have a good education, especially after a phrenologist declared that young Ulysses would one day be President. So at eighteen, Ulysses entered West Point."