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Vor 4 Tagen · Historian Amanda Clark shares an excerpt from a love letter Ulysses S. Grant sent to his future wife Julia as he served in the Mexican-American War. @fpc@fpc...
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Vor 3 Tagen · Julia Dent Grant, Aspects of Her Life and Genealogy. January 26, 1826-December 14, 1902. When Julia Boggs Dent was about 12 years old she and her friends at the boarding school she attended in St. Louis named the occupations they hoped their individual future husbands would have.
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Vor 23 Stunden · The letter, penned from Windsor Castle on August 26, 1940 to Lady Aston, includes a signed photograph of the castle. The future queen had promised to return the picture to a Canadian soldier in convalescence at Cliveden. It reads: "I am so sorry not to have sent the photograph before but here it is at last. I do hope the soldier has not gone away.
Vor 3 Tagen · Ulysses S. Grant was a devoted family man. He and his wife Julia had four children and were fortunate not to lose any of them to an early death, as was so often in the case in those days of untreatable diseases and lack of medical care we take for granted today.
Vor 5 Tagen · Information About Her Life. Nellie Grant Sartoris Jones. Born July 4, 1855 at Wish Ton Wish near St. Louis, Missouri. Married in a spectacular White House wedding on May 21, 1874 to Algernon Sartoris of England. Ulysses and Julia's Distress Over Her Marriage. Romance of Nellie Grant, from Old and Sold.
Vor einem Tag · Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general , Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and briefly served as U.S. secretary of war .
Vor 2 Tagen · Grant supported the efforts of his Interior Secretary, Jacob D. Cox, in preventing corruption in his department, but after Cox resigned he wrote a highly critical article on Grant’s civil service reforms, which, as Calhoun points out, deviates quite drastically from reality.
