Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including commanding general Ulysses S. Grant.

General Ulysses S. Grant's victories at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign impressed Lincoln and made Grant a strong candidate to head the Union Army.

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant an excuse to take control of the even more important and strategically located town of Paducah, Kentucky without raising the ire of most Kentuckians and the pro-Union majority in the State legislature.

Due to his western successes, Ulysses S. Grant was given command of all Union armies in 1864, and organized the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman, George Meade and others to attack the Confederacy from all directions, increasing the North's advantage in manpower.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins – in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

Ulysses S. Grant, whom Johnson appointed as Stanton's interim successor, advised against the action, but accepted the temporary appointment when Johnson proceeded with Stanton's suspension in August.

One of Johnson's last significant acts as President was to grant unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant but before he took office in March 1869.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia ( 26, 765 troops ) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends – the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.

( The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.

* 1933 – U. S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.

* 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.

In 1868, Douglass supported the presidential campaign of Ulysses S. Grant.

* 1870 – President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U. S. Weather Bureau.

* 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.

A dispute with Britain over the island of Bolama was settled in Portugal's favor with the involvement of U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant.

Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.

* 1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg – Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege.

* 1881 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier ( d. 1968 )

On April 3, 1865, with Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant poised to capture Richmond, Davis escaped for Danville, Virginia, together with the Confederate Cabinet, leaving on the Richmond and Danville Railroad.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.

His father, Ulysses F. Doubleday, fought in the War of 1812, published newspapers and books, and represented Auburn, New York for four years in the United States Congress.

* 1893 – Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist ( d. 1977 )

* 1872 – Reconstruction: U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain – Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

* Tim Severin The Ulysses Voyage: The search for the Odyssey ( London ; Arrow Books, 1987 ) pages 200-214

* The Chronicle of Leopold and Molly Bloom: Ulysses as Narrative full preview on Google Books

* The Chronicle of Leopold and Molly Bloom: Ulysses as Narrative full preview on Google Books

An interesting phenomenon has been the continuing collaboration between French and Japanese animators, resulting in a series of French-Japanese cartoons / anime, including such titles as Ulysses 31 ( 1981 ), The Mysterious Cities of Gold ( 1982 ), and more recently, Ōban Star-Racers ( 2006 ).

* NASA / JPL Ulysses website

* ESA / NASA / JPL: Ulysses subsystems and instrumentation in high detail

The Grant County Republican constitutes the predecessor of the current day The Ulysses News, which claims to be Grant County, Kansas's oldest surviving business, although it has operated under numerous names, editor / publishers, and management.

In its prime, " Old " Ulysses boasted four hotels ( the most notable, Hotel Edwards, pictured hereon, which was moved to " New Ulysses " in 1909, and has been preserved / restored, currently resting on the grounds of The Historic Adobe Museum for Grant County, Kansas today ), twelve restaurants, twelve saloons, a bank, six gambling houses, a large schoolhouse, a church, a newspaper office, and an opera house to serve the approximately 1500 residents.

His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses / Odysseus in The Odyssey.

* Ulysses vs the Son of Hercules ( Ulisse contro Ercole / Ulysses vs Hercules ) starring Mike Lane as Hercules, 1962 ( Hercules inexplicably became a " Son of Hercules " in the English-dubbed version )

* Hercules, Samson and Ulysses ( Ercole sfida Sansone / Hercules Challenges Samson ) starring Kirk Morris as Hercules, 1963

* Ercole sfida Sansone / Hercules Challenges Samson ( Hercules, Samson and Ulysses ) 1963, starring Richard Lloyd as Samson

Important players in this scene were The Dismemberment Plan, Fugazi, Nation of Ulysses, and Q and Not U. Currently, important post-punk / indie / dance-rock bands like Supersystem ( formerly El Guapo ), Medications, Metrorail, Maritime, Edie Sedgwick, Mass Movement of the Moth, The Fordists, and Beauty Pill hail from DC.

A significant irony therefore develops from Ulysses ' speech to his sailors —" Come, my friends, / ' Tis not too late to seek a newer world " ( 56 – 57 ).

His biographical / critical concepts, particularly in connection with Shakespeare, are played with by Stephen Dedalus in the library chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses.

Devens later distinguished himself at Battle of Cold Harbor, while commanding the 3rd Division / XVIII Corps in Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign.

Years later, Ulysses resurfaces with a sonic emitter / gun on his right wrist as a replacement prosthetic device for his missing hand that can create whatever objects or creatures Klaw can conceive, out of sound.

* 1995 / 97-Periplanissis: following Ulysses ' Gaze

* E. Alyn Warren as Stephen A. Douglas / General Ulysses Grant

Making Mr. Right ( 1987 ) is a science fiction / comedy film, directed by Susan Seidelman and starring John Malkovich as Jeff Peters / Ulysses and Ann Magnuson as Frankie Stone.

*" Pope ", a Prince song from Glam Slam Ulysses, recorded for The Hits / The B-Sides

# Cream: " Strange Brew " / " Tales of Brave Ulysses " ( Reaction 591 015 )

* 2011-CVA is presented with the United Nations World Tourism Organisation / UNWTO Ulysses Award for Innovation in Non-Governmental Organizations for the project ' Connecting People with the Environment, W James Whyte Island Reserve: tourists volunteering to protect biodiversity-Conservation Volunteers ( Australia )'