Reply #61: again, that is inaccurate information -- Grant did not own slaves [View All]

[Ms. Clio]

during the war.

Ulysses Grant

In 1848, Grant married Julia Boggs Dent. Six years later he resigned his Army commission to devote himself to his family, but he would prove to have a poor head for business. His attempt to grow potatoes failed despite the help of two slaves given to Julia by her father. (Grant returned the slaves before the Civil War.) He failed at wood hauling, at bill collecting, at a job as a customhouse clerk, as a real estate agent, and as a harness store clerk.