After the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott in late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of all the Union armies.

After his stint as bishop, he spent the remainder of his life partly in retirement in the various houses of his order, yet often preaching throughout southern Germany.

After her retirement, Bardot established herself as an animal rights activist.

After the retirement of Sandberg and the trade of Dunston, the Cubs had holes to fill and the signing of Henry Rodriguez, known affectionately at " H-Rod " to bat cleanup provided protection for Sammy Sosa in the lineup, as Rodriguez slugged 31 round-trippers in his first season in Chicago.

After his retirement, Young went back to his farm in Ohio, where he stayed until his death at age 88 in 1955.

After his retirement as a player, Zoff went into coaching, joining the technical staff at Juventus, where he was head coach from 1988 to 1990.

After retirement, Jones worked assiduously at his publications almost up to the end of his long life.

After 20 years with Milan, Baresi announced his retirement as a player on 24 June 1997.

After his retirement from engineering, Eiffel concentrated his energies on research into meteorology and aerodynamics, making important contributions in both fields.

After his retirement from the Compagnie des Establissments Eiffel, Eiffel went on to do important work in meteorology and aerodynamics.

After his retirement from football he was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame.

After his retirement Gardner moved to Highcliffe near the New Forest on the south coast of England, where he says he met a group of people who had preserved their historic occult practices.

After his retirement in 1936, he traveled to Cyprus, penning the novel A Goddess Arrives before returning to England.

After enjoying five peaceful years in retirement at his family estate, he died on January 25 in 389.

After a 12-month ' sterilisation period ' after retirement, Leung submitted an application to the government on 9 May for approval to take up employment with New World China Land.

After fighting many battles, his defeat at Brunanburh was followed by his retirement as a Culdee monk at St. Andrews.

After Menzies ' retirement, the party had three leaders in six years -- Holt, Gorton and William McMahon.

After his retirement, Andrássy continued to take an active part in public affairs both in the Delegations and in the Upper House.

After Robinson's retirement from baseball, his wife, Rachel Robinson, pursued a career in academic nursing — she became an assistant professor at the Yale School of Nursing and director of nursing at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.

After retirement, he moved to Switzerland and wrote on the mind-body problem.

After the season, the team's veteran leader, Preki announced his retirement.

After becoming player-manager on the retirement of Joe Fagan in the 1985 close season, Dalglish selected himself for just 21 First Division games in 1985 – 86 as Liverpool won the double, but he started the FA Cup final win over Everton.

After retirement at Harvard, he served as the Mack and Effie Campbell Tyner Eminent Scholar Chair in the College of Human Sciences at Florida State University.

After Meany ’ s retirement in 1979, Lane Kirkland took over his position.

After his political retirement, he returned to practising law and living quietly and privately with his family.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

After the game, Homicide: Life on the Street premiered on NBC.

After over 30 years, the show switches to NBC on March 26, 1982.

* March 14 – After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz returns to CBS, where it will remain for the next twenty-two years, setting what was likely then a record for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network.

* October 3 – After performing a song protesting alleged child abuse by the Catholic Church, Sinéad O ' Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, causing huge controversy, leading the switchboards at NBC to ring off the hook.

* March 11 – After having opened in London the previous year, Laurence Olivier's film, Richard III, adapted from Shakespeare's play, has its U. S. premiere in theatres and on NBC Television on the same day.

* December 26 – After 35 years on the airwaves and holding the title of longest-running non-news program on network television, NBC airs the final episode of daytime drama Search for Tomorrow.

After receiving good ratings, NBC announced that Knight Rider would return as a weekly series beginning in the fall of 2008.

After acting in the western movies The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and Warlock ( 1959 ), Fonda returned to the production seat for the NBC western television series The Deputy ( 1959 – 1961 ), in which he starred as Marshal Simon Fry.

After an appearance in the acclaimed Showtime broadcast of Almos ' a Man, based on a story by Richard Wright, he starred in the epic NBC miniseries Captains and Kings, based on Taylor Caldwell's novel.

After the series ' cancellation, Bixby went on to host a string of magic specials on NBC and a series in first-run syndication.

After its acquisition by UPT, ABC at last had the means to offer a full-time television network service on the scale of CBS and NBC.

After taping in California for its entire run on NBC, requiring Griffith to commute from his home in North Carolina to the west coast, ABC moved production to DEG Film Studios in Wilmington to ease the travel burden on Griffith.

After the show's second season, NBC sold the series off into syndication with the Good Morning, Miss Bliss episodes included to pad out the syndication package, despite the plot-continuity problems and production changes.

After his morning show on NBC got cancelled in October 1980 after only 18 weeks on the air, David Letterman was still held in sufficient regard by the network brass ( especially NBC president Fred Silverman ) that upon hearing the 33-year-old comedian is being courted by a syndication company, NBC gave him a $ 20, 000 per week deal to sit out a year and guest-host a few times on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.

After the battle for The Tonight Show, when NBC gave it to comedian Jay Leno, Letterman decided to take an offer from CBS for a late night talk show to compete with The Tonight Show.

After Letterman was introduced on Late Show's very first episode, NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw accompanied him on stage and wished him " reasonably well ".

" After he carried them off stage, Letterman responded, " Who would have thought you would ever hear the words ' intellectual property ' and ' NBC ' in the same sentence?

After the break-up of the Dean Martin -- Jerry Lewis partnership, NBC offered Lewis the opportunity to host his own 90-minute color TV special.

After several years away from a regular TV gig, Louis-Dreyfus began a new single-camera sitcom Watching Ellie which premiered on NBC in February 2002.

After two seasons, NBC saw that Punky Brewster and its principal Sunday night stablemate, the four-year-old Silver Spoons, could not compete as strongly as they hoped against CBS ' juggernaut 60 Minutes, and cancelled both programs.

After retiring from racing, he became a popular racing analyst for the ESPN, NBC, and TBS television networks.

After the NBC Symphony Orchestra disbanded, some members went on to play with other orchestras, notably Frank Miller ( principal cello ) and Leonard Sharrow ( principal bassoon ) with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.