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The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: 1837-1861 - Vol. 1

By: John Y. Simon | Book details

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need not write again. Give my love to all at home and a thousand kisses for yourself.

Your devoted
ULIS

ALS, DLC-USG. The letter was carried to St. Louis by Bvt. Lt. Col. Henry Bainbridge of Mass., USMA 1821, 7th Inf. It was addressed to Julia Grant at the Dent St. Louis town house at the corner of "Fourth & Cerra" [Cerre].

1.
Dr. Samuel G. I. De Camp of N. J., was an army surgeon with the rank of maj.
2.
Jesse Grant later moved to Covington, Ky.
3.
Probably Mrs. Francis Lee, wife of Bvt. Col. Francis Lee of the 4th Inf. Clara Grant had visited USG at Sackets Harbor when the Lees were stationed there.
4.
Gregorio was the servant brought from Mexico by USG.
5.
The great fire in St. Louis, May 17, 1849, came in the midst of a great cholera epidemic which killed 4547 people in the first seven months of 1849. "Cholera Epidemics in St. Louis," Missouri Historical Society, Glimpses of the Past, III, 3 (March, 1936), pp. 56-72; J. Thomas Scharf, History of Saint Louis City and County (Philadelphia, 1883), I, 819-21; II, 1574-9.
6.
2nd Lt. Norman Elting had resigned his commission on Oct. 29, 1846. He taught school in St. Louis County, Mo., 1847-49.

To Julia Grant and Ellen Dent

Detroit Michigan
May 26th 1849

MY DEAR DEAR JULIA

I write to you dearest for the last time until it happens that we are again separated, which I sincerely hope will never take place. I know now how dearly I love you, and will never give my consent to your making another long visit without me, unless it should be absolutely necessary.

By another year I can get a leave of absence for four months and I do not know but that I could it at this time if I wanted it. I watch the papers regularly to see how the Cholera is at St. Louis and it distresses me, not a little, to see such unfavorable accounts. Dearest I do wish that you was away from there. Both

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