![]() We lived at White Haven then, the place where I met General Grant, and where he met my sister and courted her, and where they afterward lived at different times. For I was only seven then now I am two and seventy. All this was a long time ago, a very long time ago, as I look back upon all that has happened since. It was I whom he first met, and in years after, when my sister Julia had become his wife, it used to be my teasing boast that I knew him best because I had known him longest. I was a very little girl when general Grant first came to our house in fact, I was not yet seven years old. ![]() Grant National Historic Site and is republished here in full. The original manuscript is in the collections at Ulysses S. At various points she uses racialized language that is inappropriate today and was inappropriate at the time. Like her sister's own recollections in The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, Emma romanticized slavery at White Haven. Grant and described her childhood at White Haven. In 1908, she provided a recollection of her relationship with Ulysses S. ![]() ![]() Library of Congress Emily "Emma" Maurbury Dent Casey (1836 - 1920) was the youngest sister of Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses S. ![]()
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