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Grant graduated on June 30, 1843, rated twenty first out of 39 in his class and was promoted the subsequent working day to the rank brevet 2nd lieutenant. Promoted to captain on August 5, 1853, Grant was assigned to command Company F, 4th Infantry, at the freshly constructed Fort Humboldt in California. Grant arrived at Fort Humboldt on January 5, 1854, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Robert C. Buchanan, a martinet officer, with whom Grant had before crossed paths at Jefferson Barracks. Marching south to Fort Texas, to protect against a Mexican siege, Grant professional battle for the very first time on May 8, 1846, at the Battle of Palo Alto. He put in extra time looking at books from the library than his educational texts, which include will work by James Fenimore Cooper and other folks. MC groups elevated in excess of time. Grant's very first article-war assignments took him and Julia to Detroit on November 17, 1848, but he was soon transferred to Madison Barracks, a desolate outpost in upstate New York, in negative will need of supplies and fix.