Grant wanted his wife with him at every possible opportunity, and he made that clear from the start. The Vicksburg batteries it was one of the longest separations the Grants endured during the war. They were there for two months before they joined him to watch the running of The Vicksburg campaign, he left the two Julias and Jesse in Tennessee until he could establish a headquarters camp and send for them. But at the end of January 1863, when Grant had moved his headquarters south from Memphis to take personal charge of Grant had lived with her husband in nearly every one of his military camps since the war began. Along with her servant, also named Julia, and the Grants’ youngest son, Jesse, Julia Dent Grant had to tell Julia about his misfortune in a letter because, uncharacteristically, she was not with him that day. Hamline, might be in Memphis, and since Julia was there, Grant urged her to try to find him and “tell him of my misfortune.” This morning the servant who attends to my stateroom, blacks my boots, &c.” came into my room “about daylight and finding water” in the basin “threw it out in to the river, teethĪnd all.” Grant thought his dentist, a Dr. “Last night, contrary to my usual habit, I took out my teeth and put them in the wash and covered them with water. “This morning I met with a great loss,” he wrote his wife Juliaįrom temporary quarters aboard the steamer Magnolia, anchored near the Mississippi River town. Grant faced a challenge more urgent than capturing Vicksburg, Miss., his current military objective. Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded.
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