Posted on 09/07/2021 8:22:53 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Don’t know one way or the other on that but Longstreet and Grant were good friends at West Point long before Grant met Julia. I believe it was Julia’s brother Fred Dent, another West Point classmate of Grant, who introduced the two.
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