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To: SmoothSail who wrote (102681)1/27/2018 2:22:42 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 124970
 
His given name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. The name got screwed up somehow on his application to West Point. He tried to fix it but finally gave up and lived with it. Which wasn't hard since he didn't like the name Hiram or his initials - H.U.G.

I'm reading Chernow's Biography.