the maysville academy and for 11 months another young man also attended. at that time his name was hiram ulysses grant. he later became known course as ulysses us grant the two of them were good friends, they they partici painted in a debate society. there are records of their debates and the subject matter i talk about in the book some of it's very ironic. but then grant's father decided he wasn't paying enough attention. his studies for what he was paying into with and for him. so he sent him off to west point where tuition was free and the two of them in 1838 sort of separated separated. marquand went on to go augusta college in kentucky and to study the law and became a steamboat clerk and then in 1848, he and, his father went to washington, d.c., where they each became clerks in different offices and mark then became a clerk in the pension, which dealt with the pensions for revolutionary soldiers still alive at that time. and soldiers the war of 1812. he a busy, busy young man but. 1850 he married the daughter of a wealthy developer in washington, d.c