In this respect, Grant's initial Reconstruction policy aligned with Johnson's policy of pardoning established southern leaders and restoring them to their positions of power.

This Mean War < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s initial sales drew comparisons to Amy Grant's Age to Age as consumers snapped it off the shelves ( though it ultimately fell short of that album's lofty marks ).

Gen. Alfred Torbert was the initial commander of the 1st Division but was gone for most of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign in 1864, so Merritt acted as commander in his place.

On the human side, various subplots run through the novel, contrasting the " official " heroism of NASA with the human fallibilities of the cast — the difficulties the Kolffs face in integrating into American society ; Norman Grant's initial embrace of the space program and his abandonment of it as it no longer serves his political aims, while his unstable wife and their daughter fall in with a highly intelligent but cynical cult leader calling himself Leopold Strabismus who exploits first the UFO craze and then an anti-scientific creationist agenda to increase his fortune ; Randy Claggett's womanizing ; the contrast between Stanley and Rachel Mott's ordered, rational existence and their troubled relationship with their sons, and John Pope's unusual yet supportive relationship with his lawyer wife Penny.

Fiercely protective of his girlfriend, most of Grant's initial problems in the Square revolve around his over-possessive nature and jealousy.

In a 2003 poll, three years after Grant's initial departure, the character was voted the soap hero most viewers wanted back on their screens, gaining the vote of one in five people.

Grant and Phil's brotherly confrontation — marking Grant's initial exit in 1999 — was panned by critics.

This was also Kangaroos ' veteran Shannon Grant's last AFL game, and he was given a standing ovation by both Swans and Kangaroos players as he represented both clubs throughout his career ( although it was at North Melbourne where Grant really made his mark in the game ) Their only clash in 2009 ( Round 14, which the Swans won by 15 points to end a four-game losing streak ) was aired into both the Sydney and Brisbane markets rather than the live vs. match which was a high-rating television match around the rest of the country.

After Lee held at bay Grant's attempt to seize Petersburg on June 15, the battle settled into a stalemate.

The expedition against the Sioux was originally scheduled to leave Fort Abraham Lincoln on April 6, 1876, but on March 15, Custer was summoned to Washington to testify at Congressional hearings regarding the scandal involving U. S. Secretary of War William W. Belknap and President Grant's brother Orville.

Kirriemuir claims the narrowest public footpath in Western Europe ; Cat's Close, situated between Grant's Pend and Kirkwynd, is a mere 40 centimetres ( 15. 75 inches ) wide.

He was second in command under Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Belmont ( Missouri ) in November 1861, and commanded the 1st Division of Grant's army at Fort Donelson ; his division, whose flank was not properly anchored on an obstacle, was struck by a surprise attack on February 15, 1862, and driven back almost two miles before he was able to get reinforcements.

The Milliken's Bend area, 15 miles to the northwest of Vicksburg, had until recently served as a staging area for Grant's Vicksburg Campaign.

As of May 7, Grant's Union forces totaled approximately 100, 000 men.

Hepburn's salary went from $ 72, 500 to $ 121, 680. 50, Grant's salary went from $ 75, 000 to $ 123, 437. 50 and Hawks ' salary went from $ 88, 046. 25 to $ 202, 500.

Early, at the Battle of Waynesboro in the Shenandoah Valley, Lee realized that an additional 50, 000 men under Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan would probably join Grant's army at Petersburg.

McClernand ordered Grant's subordinate, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, to join the troops of his corps with McClernand's, calling the two corps the Army of the Mississippi, approximately 33, 000 men.

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.

The zoo also organized a four-year mission to Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania, which brought back 157 species and 1, 000 animals including giraffe, African elephant, zebra, wildebeest, oryx, ostrich, Thompson's and Grant's Gazelle, Geochelone tortoises, baboon, and aardvark.

" Petra ultimately played to more than 500, 000 people in the yearlong world tour, which ranked second in all of Christian music only to Amy Grant's.

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.

Grant's Union forces totaled approximately 68, 000 men, depleted from the start of the campaign by battle losses, illnesses, and expired enlistments.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis was under heavy political pressure to come to the aid of the besieged Pemberton and his 40, 000 troops, bottled up in Vicksburg by Grant's 60, 000 troops.

Thus, Grant's forces in the immediate vicinity consisted of 12, 000 men at Bolivar, Rosecrans's 23, 000 at Corinth, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's 7, 000 at Memphis, and another 6, 000 as a general reserve at Jackson.

Colonel Tucker told General Grant's superior, Major General Henry W. Halleck, that Camp Douglas could accommodate 8, 000 or 9, 000 prisoners, which was about the same number of recruits that the camp was supposed to be able to accommodate.

Finally, Union gunboats and troop transport boats ran the batteries at Vicksburg and met up with Grant's men who had marched overland in Louisiana.

On October 30, 1863, he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers, the only officer ever promoted to troop command from Grant's regular staff.

Early in November, his ship supported Ulysses S. Grant's move on the Southern camp at Belmont, Missouri, escorting troop transports, bombarding shore batteries and, finally, covering the withdrawal of Grant's forces from the Battle of Belmont.

For example, in April 1863, less than half of Grant's departmental strength was directly engaged in the Vicksburg Campaign.

In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.

Johnston's army was finally in position within a mile or two of Grant's force, and undetected, by the evening of April 5, 1862.

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.

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

The track " Baby Baby " ( written for Grant's newborn daughter, Millie, whose " six-week-old face was my inspiration ,") became a pop hit ( hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ), and Grant was established as a name in the mainstream music world.

Ironically, it is also in the Reeve films that Clark Kent's persona has the greatest resemblance to Woody Allen, though his conscious model was Cary Grant's character in Bringing up Baby.

The show was responsible for the phrases " Say the secret woid and divide $ 100 " ( that is, each contestant would get $ 50 ); and " Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?

Union General Ulysses S. Grant's campaigns bore down on Lee in 1864 and 1865, and despite inflicting heavy casualties, Lee was unable to force back Grant.

Grant's reputation as president by 1875 was at an all-time high for his previous veto of the Inflation Bill, the passage of the Resumption of Specie Act, and Secretary Bristow's successful raids that shut down the Whiskey Ring.

Grant's response to the Panic of 1873 and the severe depression that followed was ineffective.

In 1876, Grant's reputation was damaged by his White House deposition defending his personal secretary Orville Babcock, indicted in the Whiskey Ring graft trials, and his Secretary of War William W. Belknap's resignation, impeachment by the House, and trial in the Senate over receiving profit money from the Fort Sill tradership.

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.

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.

This order expelled Jews, as a class, from Grant's military district, in reaction to illicit activities of overly aggressive cotton traders in the Union camps, which Grant believed was interfering with military operations.

Grant's first action was to open up a supply line to the Army of the Cumberland trapped in Chattanooga.

Grant's fame increased throughout the country, and he was promoted to Lieutenant General, a position that had previously been given to George Washington and given to Winfield Scott as a brevet promotion.