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A Place Called Home
The Dent and Grant families spent many enjoyable years on this plantation while their children were growing up. While a few of the enslaved people lived in the house, most were housed in log cabins behind the house.
Timeline
1816-1888
1816 · William L. Long begins construction of two story log structure
1818 · Theodore & Anne Lucas Hunt purchase property
1820 · Fredrick T. and Ellen Wrenshall Dent purchase property
1843 · Ulysses S. Grant makes first visit
1854 · Ulysses and Julia Grant live on property with 4 children
1860 · Grant family moves to Galena, Illinois
1865 · Ulysses and Julia begin purchasing sections of the property
1885 · Grant transfers property to William Vanderbilt
1888 · Luther Conn purchases property
1816-1864 · Enslaved African Americans on the property
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150 Years Ago - Petersburg
From the summer of 1864 through the spring of 1865 General Ulysses S. Grant lived in Virginia near the confluence of the Appomattox and James Rivers, first in a tent and then a two room cabin. The front room was used as office and meeting room, the back room as living space. Julia and their son Jesse moved in with him in January 1865.
Lt.
Col. Adam Badeau Remembrance of General Ulysses S. Grant at Petersburg.
"...Sometimes the door remained open, and the candle flickered in its iron frame. I can see him {Grant} now in his light blue soldier's overcoat and his broad-brimmed hat, cigar in mouth, leaning over the table and writing an order to one of his great generals... One or two maps always lay on his table, and as he got news from Sherman on his great marches, or a report from Sheridan after a victory in the Valley, he often entered to look for the exact spot where the manoeuvres [sic] or the battle had occurred."
Lt. Col. Adam Badeau to Russell Thayer, chief engineer and superintendent. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February, 12, 1889
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