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Julia Dent (Mrs. Gen. U. S.) Grant owned slaves; very likely all inherited from her father Frederick Dent who moved to St. Louis Mo. from Maryland, while two of his brothers moved to Augusta, Georgia. Frederick, George Dent (1758-1813) and brother (Thomas) Marshall Dent (1761-1823) of Charles County, Md., were cousins of John Marshall. George Dent was a Maryland Representative for eight years. George and Marshall Dent liquidated their holdings and moved to Augusta, Georgia, in 1802. George Dent's oldest son, John Herbert Dent (b. 15 Feb. 1782) was the captain of the "John Adams" a famous US naval ship built in Charleston, SC by Charleston's Pritchard family ("From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli") whose granddaughters married into the Longstreet and Wade Hampton families in SC and Augusta, Ga. Captain John Herbert Dent became commander of the Charleston Naval Station in March 1812, and married Elizabeth Ann Horry of Charleston. James Longstreet (I) (1784-1833) son of William Longstreet the steamboat inventor (not R. Fulton) was a businessman and planter near Augusta; he married Mary Ann Dent (1793-1855), Marshall Dent's daughter, in 1813; their son was Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, C.S.A. Frederick Dent moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1816, rather than join his relatives in Augusta. Frederick Dent's son, Frederick Tracy Dent, joined his cousin James Longstreet at West Point, where one of James' best friends was U. S. "Sam" Grant who was in the class behind Longstreet. [Another member of their circle was Alfred Sully (1820-1879), son of painter Thomas Sully (1783-1872), who shared Augusta and Charleston family ties with Longstreet -- Thomas' father, Matthew, Sr., and his older brother, Matthew, Jr., both died in Augusta, the former in 1815, the latter in 1812. Three of the Sully sisters married prominent Charlestonians.] Grant and Longstreet were breveted for their actions in the Mexican War. On R&R at Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis, Longstreet took his friend Capt. Grant to dinner at uncle Frederick's plantation and introduced Sam to his little cousin Julia (1826-1902) and the rest is history. I'm not sure, but I think Longstreet was best man in the wedding five years later, certainly he was a key member of the 1848 wedding party. For additional information see "The Maryland Dents: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Judge Thomas Dent & Capt. John Dent who settled early in the Province of Maryland", by Harry Wright Newman, The Dietz Press, Inc., Richmond, Va., 1963, pp. 31, 37, 66, 69, 85-87; also see Dent manuscripts and references at the Charleston Museum (S.C.) as well as the Longstreet and Grant papers and memoirs, including "From Manassas to Appomattox" by Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, C.S.A. Julia Dent Grant, granddaughter of U. S. Grant and Julia Dent, was born in the White House and through that connection met her future husband the Russian prince ichael Cantacuzene. She died at her Washington, DC home in the 1970's, where she finally settled after retreating from St. Petersburg due to the Russian Revolution. Julia Dent Grant's grandson lives near Washington, DC at the present time; interestingly, his winter home for some years has been at Aiken, S.C., near Augusta, Ga. There is a great deal more to this story than I have indicated above. If you have questions feel free to email me.
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