Neither of their fathers approved of the match - hers because of Grant's career as a soldier, and his because the Dents were slaveholders.
Grant's parents refused to attend the wedding though they did come to accept Julia.
This Week in History...
On August 22, 1848 Ulysses S. Grant, at age 26, married Julia Dent, age 22, at the White Haven Plantation.
Neither of their fathers approved of the match - hers because of Grant's career as a soldier, and his because the Dents were slaveholders.
Grant's parents refused to attend the wedding though they did come to accept Julia.
Neither of their fathers approved of the match - hers because of Grant's career as a soldier, and his because the Dents were slaveholders.
Grant's parents refused to attend the wedding though they did come to accept Julia.
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