Grant and Madame Jule Chapter Five AUGUST 1854–APRIL 1860 In late September, when they could defer it no longer, Ulys and Julia left their sons in her parents’ care and took the steamer to visit Hannah and Jesse Root Grant at their new residence in Covington, Kentucky, across the river from Cincinnati. A barrage of letters had already warned them that Jesse was grievously disappointed in Ulys, that he had taken the news of his son’s resignation as an almost physical blow. Ulys’s sister Jennie, ever loyal, had confided that their father had written to Secretary of War Jefferson Davis in a vain attempt to rescind his son’s resignation. Thus Julia was not surprised when her father-in-law spent most of their visit lamenting that Ulys had failed to meet all his proud expectations, that he could not fathom how Ulys supposed he might earn a living now that he had decided to squander his education and abandon the profession for which he had trained. Ulys listened stoically as his father complained, while inwardly Julia fumed and did her best to emulate her mother-in-law’s serene calm.
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