Grant's desire to widen her audience was frowned upon by the confines of the popular definitions of ministry at the time.

The pair announced their professional split and cited creative and professional differences, along with Grant's desire to move onto new shows.

Lincoln was also alarmed at the level of casualties, and queried Halleck as to Grant's potential responsibility for them ; Grant was criticized for his decision to keep the Union Army bivouacked rather than entrenched.

President Lincoln again sent Charles Dana to keep a watchful eye on Grant's alleged intemperance ; Dana eventually became Grant's devoted ally, and made light of the drinking.

This greatly divided Grant's potential vote and prevented him from offering himself as a viable tactical option to Conservative voters who wished to keep the left-wing Labour candidate, Jeremy Corbyn out of Parliament.

Ulysses S. Grant's birthplace in Point Pleasant, Ohio

Grant's first battles during the Civil War were launched from his base at Cairo, Illinois, the strategic point where the Ohio River runs into the Mississippi River and there are easy links to the Tennessee and Culberland rivers.

On the first day of the battle, the Confederates struck with the intention of driving the Union defenders away from the river and into the swamps of Owl Creek to the west, hoping to defeat Grant's Army of the Tennessee before the anticipated arrival of Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio.

Thomas, promoted to major general effective April 25, 1862, was given command of the Right Wing, consisting of four divisions from Grant's former Army of the Tennessee and one from the Army of the Ohio.

" Grant replaced Halleck in command of most forces in the West, but Buell's Army of the Ohio was separated and Buell reported directly to Halleck, a peer of Grant's.

After Butler's bill was defeated, Rep. Samuel Shellabarger of Ohio, drafted another bill — only slightly less sweeping than Butler's — which successfully passed both houses and became law upon Grant's signature on April 20.

Sherman's force of about 100, 000 men was composed of three subordinate armies: the Army of the Tennessee ( Grant's and later Sherman's army of 1862 – 63 ) under Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson ; the Army of the Cumberland under Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas ; and the relatively small Army of the Ohio ( composed of only the XXIII Corps ) under Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield.

That same day, the Steubenville Railroad Bridge opened over the Ohio River, connecting the S & I and P & S, as did the connection at Pittsburgh, connecting the Pennsylvania Railroad with the P & S via the Monongahela River Bridge ( commonly called the Panhandle Bridge ) and Grant's Hill Tunnel.

In his first and last speech in the Senate, Johnson spoke eloquently in opposition to Grant's military intervention between rival governments in Louisiana, when the gubernatorial election was disputed and Democratic supporters ousted the winning Republican side with armed force in New Orleans.

His father-in-law was a prominent Democrat in St. Louis, a factor that helped derail Grant's bid to become county engineer in 1859, while his own father was an outspoken Republican in Galena.

Crusading against the corruption of Ulysses S. Grant's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's candidate in the 1872 U. S. presidential election.

Opposing Grant's re-election bid, he joined the Liberal Republican Party in 1872.

He opposed Grant's reelection by supporting the Liberal Republican candidate Horace Greeley in 1872 and lost his power inside the Republican party.

The Whiskey Ring scandal, along with other alleged abuses of power by the Republican party, contributed to national weariness of Reconstruction, which ended after Grant's presidency with the Compromise of 1877.

Distillers and revenue officers in St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and other cities were implicated, and the illicit gains, which in St. Louis alone probably amounted to more than $ 2, 500, 000 in the six years ( 1870 – 1876 ) were divided between the distillers and the revenue officers, who levied assessments on distillers ostensibly for a Republican campaign fund to be used in furthering Ulysses S. Grant's re-election.

All of Grant's appointments, including Hoar's, were initially a shock to the Senate, since Grant chose his cabinet independently from leaders of the Republican Party.

After Grant's speech Republican Congressman James G. Blaine ( 1830-1893 ) proposed the amendment to the federal Constitution.

Through the eight years of President Grant's administration, he stood out as the spokesman of the President and one of the principal leaders of the Republican Party in the Senate.

With the election following the Panic of 1873, Grant's Republican Party was crushed in the elections, losing their majority and almost half their seats to the Democratic Party.

Grant's Republican Party increased its majority greatly at the expense of the opposition Democratic Party.

With Grant's administration rocked by a number of scandals ( including a shady deal for gold speculation that led to a crash in the market and several business deals that saw high-ranking governmental officials gain kickbacks ) and Reconstruction winding down, his Republican Party lost seats to the opposition Democratic Party but retained an overall majority.

The Democrats gained 20 seats, but Grant's Republican Party retained a commanding majority in the Reconstruction era following the American Civil War, holding onto a firm legitimacy through an association with victory.

In 1959, he played Cary Grant's attorney in North by Northwest.

His wife attempts to take his mind off it, but then Grant's attorney, Erin Jacobs, shows up.

Subsequent to the criminal trial Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris filed a US $ 25 million wrongful death civil lawsuit against BART on behalf of Grant's daughter and girlfriend.

An apocryphal story about Grant's drinking has the general's critics going to President Abraham Lincoln, charging the military man with being a drunk.

Most of the bloody repulses his army suffered in the Overland Campaign were ordered by Grant, although the aggressive maneuvering that eventually cornered Lee in the trenches around Petersburg were Grant's initiative as well.

Grant's foreign policy, led by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, implemented International Arbitration, settled the Alabama Claims with Britain and avoided war with Spain over the Virginius Affair.

Confederate cavalry raiders Bedford Forrest and Earl Van Dorn stalled Grant's advance by breaking communications, while the Confederate army led by John C. Pemberton concentrated and repulsed Sherman's direct approach at Chickasaw Bayou.

Grant's army of 48, 894 men consisted of six divisions, led by Maj. Gens.

Grant's suspected involvement also led his presidency to be called the Era of Good Stealings.

The result of Akerman and Bristows prosecutions and President Grant's willingness to enforce the law to stop the Klan, led to massive African American voting turnouts in 1872.

Cooper's efforts led to the formation of the Board of Indian Commissioners, which oversaw Ulysses S. Grant's Peace Policy.

This article also discusses Grant's 1861 – 1862 commands — the District of Southeast Missouri and the District of Cairo — because the troops Grant led in the Battle of Belmont and the Henry-Donelson campaign during that period became the nucleus of the Army of the Tennessee.

On the basis of Grant's executive order, Congress sent a delegation, led by future president James Garfield, to make arrangements with the tribe for their removal.

Grant's first objective was secure the three remaining open rail lines that served Petersburg and the Confederate capital of Richmond: the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad ; the South Side Railroad, which reached to Lynchburg in the west ; and the Weldon Railroad, also called the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad, which led to Weldon, North Carolina, and the Confederacy's only remaining major port, Wilmington, North Carolina.

His criticisms of civil maladministration during General Grant's terms as president led to a notable attempt on the part of that administration, in July 1873, to take him from New York on a charge of libel, to be tried without a jury in a Washington police court.

An example of this was that he was one of the few people who offered support to Mark Fowler when he was isolated by the rest of Albert Square ( led ironically by Grant's mother, Peggy ), because of his HIV illness.