The Yank ( Civil War ) History

The Yank Cabin, formerly named the Civil War Cabin, was built around 1850. It was originally located on Droop Mountain, which is the largest Civil War Battle ground in West Virginia. This cabin was used by the confederate troops as they re-treated the Greenbrier Valley after the battle of Droop Mountain, as a bivouac and first aid station. (Builder of the Cabin is unknown) Behind the Yank Cabin is the resting place of 16 Union Soldiers. Union Burial Ground

 

On April 27, 1822, Grant was born in a log cabin in Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, 25 miles (40 km) east of Cincinnati on the Ohio River. He was the eldest of the six children of Jesse Root Grant (1794–1873) and Hannah Simpson Grant (1798–1883). His father, a tanner from Pennsylvania, was descended from an English immigrant to Massachusetts, Matthew Grant (1601-1681).[4] His mother was born in Horsham Township, Pennsylvania. At birth, Grant was named Hiram Ulysses.[5] In the fall of 1823, the family moved to the village of Georgetown in Brown County, Ohio. On August 22, 1848, Grant married Julia Boggs Dent (1826–1902), the daughter of a slave owner. They had four children: Frederick Dent Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. (Buck), Ellen Wrenshall Grant (Nellie), and Jesse Root Grant.

 

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