From the August 22nd St. Louis Post-Dispatch "A Look Back: Ulysses Grant's marriage was aquiet affair."
One fiddler provided the entertainment and there was a table with refreshments at the back of the room. Hardly a big deal for a man who would go on to command all the Union Armies in the Civil War and then serve two terms at president.
The Rev. John H. Linn married Julia Dent and Lt. Ulysses S. Grant in her family residence at 701 South Fourth Street in St. Louis on a hot August 22, 1848. The marriage only warranted 3 lines in the local newspaper, despite the fact Julia's father was a man of considerable means as a successful farmer.
Grant was 26 and had just returned from the Mexican War. One of his groomsmen was James Longstreet, a fellow officer and Julia's cousin. Longstreet would go on to become a general in the Confederate Army and an adversary of Grant.
More to Come. --Old B-Runner
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