"The bride's veil was adorned in jasmine blooms as she strode downstairs to the parlor, where her young Army officer waited. A lone fiddler provided music. Refreshments were on a table in the back room.

The Rev. John H. Linn married Julia Dent and Lt. Ulysses S. Grant in her family's city residence, 701 South Fourth Street, on a hot Aug. 22, 1848."