Nellie Grant
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"Nellie" Ellen Wrenshall Grant (July 4, 1855 - August 30, 1922), was the third child and only daughter of General of the Army and President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant.
[edit] Biography
She was first named Julia, at the insistence of her father, but was christened Ellen at eighteen months to honor her dying grandmother.[1]
She married Englishman Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris (August 1, 1851-February 3, 1893), the son of opera singer Adelaide Kemble and nephew of noted actress and anti-slavery activist Fanny Kemble, on May 21, 1874 in the East Room of the White House. [1] She married again, this time to Frank Hatch Jones (d. August 30, 1922) on July 4, 1912.
[edit] References
- ^ Garland, Hamlin, Ulysses S. Grant: His Life and Character, Macmillan Company, 1898.
- Catton, Bruce, Grant Takes Command, Little, Brown and Company, 1968, Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 69-12632.
- Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
- Garland, Hamlin, Ulysses S. Grant: His Life and Character, Macmillan Company, 1898.
- Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885–86, ISBN 0-914427-67-9.
- Hesseltine, William B., Ulysses S. Grant: Politician 1935.
- Lewis, Lloyd, Captain Sam Grant, Little, Brown, and Co., 1950, ISBN 0-316-52348-8.
- McFeely, William S., Grant: A Biography, W. W. Norton & Co, 1981, ISBN 0-393-01372-3.
- McPherson, James M., Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States), Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-19-503863-0.
- Simpson, Brooks D., Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865, Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ISBN 0-395-65994-9.
- Smith, Jean Edward, Grant, Simon and Shuster, 2001, ISBN 0-684-84927-5.
- Woodworth, Steven E., Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861 – 1865, Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, ISBN 0-375-41218-2.
- Official Ulysses Simpson Grant biography from the US Army Center for Military History
