Wife of Union General Ulysses S. Grant Born at White Haven Plantation west of St. Louis. Missouri, Julia Dent was the daughter of Colonel Frederick Dent, a slaveholding planter and merchant. She grew up there in a typically Southern atmosphere. Julia, the fifth of seven children and the first girl, ...

Wife of Confederate General John Brown Gordon Rebecca (Fanny) Haralson, September 18, 1837, and lived almost into our own time, was the daughter of General Hugh Anderson Haralson of LaGrange, Georgia. Her father had represented Georgia in Congress for many years and was Chairman of the Committee on ...

Wife of Confederate General Daniel Harvey Hill Isabella Morrison was the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, Reverend Doctor Robert Hall Morrison, who was the first president of Davidson College near Charlotte, North Carolina. She was also the granddaughter of General Joseph Graham, who had seen ex...

Wife of Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee Elizabeth Blair was born on June 20, 1818, in Frankfort, Kentucky, and was the only daughter of Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Violet Gist Blair. She was the younger sister of Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair, Jr. Her father was a journalist from F...

Wife of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart Flora Cooke was born in Missouri on January 3, 1836, the daughter of Virginia career Army officer Philip St. George Cooke. Educated at a private boarding school in Detroit, Flora met the dashing James Ewell Brown Stuart while her father was commanding the 2n...

Fiancee of Union General Born in Stillwater, Saratoga County, NY, there is some dispute about the year of Kate's birth but 1836, despite the date on her grave marker, appears to be the most consistent and logical year. Her life from the beginning was tragic and tumultuous as she lost her mother and ...