Grant's wife was from St. Louis. After Grant left the army, he managed the farm of his father-in-law near St. Louis for awhile. The location is now known as Grant's farm, is open to the public as something of an amusement park and includes a reconstruction of the cabin where Grant lived there.
Grant was married at the bride's home in St. Louis, Missouri.
general john d. mcdonald
Grant was assigned to the Fourth Infantry at Jefferson Barracks. Missouri, near St. Louis, when he graduated from West Point.
general john d. mcdonald
General John D. McDonald
general john d. mcdonald
general john d. mcdonald
Grant accepted a US army infantry position as a second lieutenant at Jefferson Barracks near St Louis the year that he graduated from West Point .
He was stationed at Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis and met his wife while he lived there. Later, he left the army and lived in the St. Louis area for a few years. During the Civil War he spent time on Missouri.
Ulysses S. Grant married Julia Boggs Dent in 1848
They lived just outside of St. Louis and in Galena ,Illinois before he was President. Afterward, they lived in upstate New York.
Dent's brother was a classmate of Grant at West Point. Grant was stationed at Jefferson Barracks which was not far from Dent's home outside of St. Louis. Dent's brother introduced them. The were engaged in 1844 and married in 1848.