Welcome to Litsy!

This is the fictionalized account of the relationship between Julia Grant and her personal slave and namesake, Jule. Even while championing the Union‘s cause, Julia did not free Jule, who only gained freedom from the Emancipation Proclamation. Given the main characters and the time period, I expect there to be a lot of #soldiers as well. #abbainaugust

I found this book rather dull, and the writing seemed a little basic. It read more as two separate books, one of which was regurgitating facts from the civil war battles, a topic which is not of any interest to me. I was hoping for more from the story of the women in the title, that was the part of the story that I enjoyed and wanted more of. Perhaps the author was trying to do too much in the span of the novel.

My lazy, rainy day.

Reading about General Grant's passing and I lost it reading this passage. 😭 #uglycry