Even so, by the time his regiment was ordered to Louisiana, he and Julia were engaged, unbeknownst to Colonel Dent. This was something Ulysses Grant could not offer on a soldier’s pay. Julia's father Colonel Dent made it clear from the start that he hoped his daughter would marry someone able to provide her with comfort. He was a classmate of Julia’s brother, Frederick Dent. Grant, who was stationed at the nearby Jefferson Barracks. After returning home in 1844 from seven years of boarding school, she met the young Lieutenant Ulysses S. Those brown eyes had a condition known as being "wall-eyed", that is, to see one object and another at the same time. Her parents were "Colonel" Frederick Dent and Ellen Bray Wrenshall Dent. The brown-eyed Julia Boggs Dent Grant was born on Januon White Haven Plantation in St. She said after hearing this, she thought, of her husband, "My knight, my Lancelot!" Who knew that a man who had seen the worst ravages of war had not lost his tenderness towards the woman who was his life partner. Julia wrote "he drew me near to him and said 'Did I not see you and fall in love with you with these same eyes? I like them just as they are'". When she told her husband that she was concerned about his becoming a great man, while she believed herself to be too plain, Ulysses Grant had a sweet response. She was slightly cross-eyed, and had missed an opportunity to correct the problem when she was younger. Brands tells in his 2012 book The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace about Julia Grant feeling insecure about her eyes and lamenting to her husband about the problem.
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