At one point, according to Grant's memoirs, his father Jesse worked in the tanning business for the father of John Brown.

John Y. Simon, editor of Julia Grant's memoirs, concluded that Longstreet " may have been a groomsman ," and Longstreet biographer Donald Brigman Sanger called the role of best man " uncertain " while noting that neither Grant nor Longstreet mentioned any such role in either of their memoirs.

There is a famous, apocryphal story, included in Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs, about Bragg as a company commander at a frontier post where he also served as quartermaster.

Rogers tells him he can avoid bankruptcy, but only if he does not honor his overly-generous contract to publish Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs.

( In reality, the company did publish Grant's memoirs — about eight years before Clemens met Rogers — and the venture was a huge success.

Grant's vigor in disrupting the Klan made him unpopular among many whites, but Frederick Douglass praised him.

He praised Grant's performance, describing it as a kind of " endearing awkwardness ".

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.

Lincoln then made an extended visit to Grant's headquarters at City Point, Virginia.

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

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.

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.

Part of Grant's demerits were due to his refusal, at times, of compulsory church attendance, then a West Point policy that Grant viewed as anti-republican.

" Grant's own demeanor had changed immediately at the outset of the war ; having renewed energies, he began to walk with a confident step.

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.

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.

Sherman's experiences in the military had been very similar to Grant's ; he had studied at West Point, served in the Mexican War, and later had resigned from the Army only to fail in his civilian career.

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.

On April 14, only five days after Grant's victory at Appomattox, President Lincoln was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater, and died the next morning.

Grant was the most popular man in the country ; when President Johnson was at loggerheads with the Congress over Reconstruction, he decided to take his case to the people with his infamous " swing around the circle " throughout the country and he sought to capitalize on Grant's popularity by having Grant travel with him.

In a letter, published after the election, Grant sought to unequivocally distance himself from General Orders No. 11: " Grant's self-serving explanation ", notes Jonathan Sarna, " did not actually bear close scrutiny ," but Jews nonetheless generously accepted his attempt at self-extrication: " I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit.

Breaking a long held tradition, President Johnson declined to ride with Grant's carriage or attend Grant's Inauguration at the Capitol, having chosen to remain at the White House signing last minute bills into law.

The first two animals to arrive at the park were the Nilgai, an antelope from the plains of North India, and the black and white striped Grant's Zebra, a zebra native to East Africa.

Grant's superior, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, was concerned about Confederate reinforcements retaking the forts, so Grant left Wallace with his brigade in command at Fort Henry while the rest of the army moved overland toward Fort Donelson.

Wallace finally arrived at Grant's position at about 7 p. m., at a time when the fighting was practically over.

* plus VII: A-Ha's " Take on Me ", Gordon Lightfoot's " If You Could Read My Mind ", Amy Grant's " Good For Me ", Aretha Franklin's "( You Make Me Feel Like ) A Natural Woman " ( also Carole King ), Elvis Costello and the Attractions ' " Everyday I Write The Book ", and the Traveling Wilburys ' " Not Alone Any More ".

( If Grant's attack had been delayed by two days, the battle would have never occurred because the fort was by then entirely underwater.

His theatre credits include David Marshall Grant's Snakebit ( Off-Broadway at the Century Center and in Los Angeles at the Coast Playhouse ), South Coast Repertory ( Noises Off, Taking Steps, The Real Thing ), The Antaeus Company ( Peace In Our Time, The Malcontent, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8: 30, Sinan Unel's Pera Palas ), Black Dahlia Theatre ( Jonathan Tolins ' Secrets of the Trade, Richard Kramer's Theater District, both directed by Matt Shakman ), The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble ( Bach at Leipzig, Small Tragedy ), L. A. Theatre Works ( The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial ), and Pasadena Playhouse ( If Memory Serves ).

If any doubts remained as to the Union cavalry's equality with its Southern counterparts, they were dispelled during Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign.

Lee had sent Early up the Shenandoah Valley to attack Washington, DC and draw troops away from Grant's Army of the Potomac.

Sheridan's cavalry, after Early was defeated, pursuant to Grant's orders, destroyed vital Confederate supply farms in the Shenandoah Valley.

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.

Early 20th century books on Nordicism such as Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race, had a profound effect on Hitler's antisemitism.

Grant's next choice was a man aggressive enough to defeat Early: Philip Sheridan, the cavalry commander of the Army of the Potomac.

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.

In order to continue to be of service to Lee in the Valley, Early realized he had to attack the diminished force in front of him to ensure that Grant's force at Petersburg would not be reinforced.

Early attacked him to prevent or delay his return to Grant's forces besieging Petersburg.

Lincoln arranged for an intermediary to make inquiry into Grant's political intentions, and being assured that he had none, submitted to the Senate Grant's promotion to commander of the Union Army.

The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

Gen. Lloyd Tilghman surrendered the 94 remaining officers and men of his approximately 3, 000-man force which had not been sent to Fort Donelson before U. S. Grant's force could even take up their positions.

The influence of Grant's family brought about the appointment to West Point, while Grant himself later recalled " a military life had no charms for me ".

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.

Grant's curt response to Johnson in the Stanton matter increased his popularity with the Radical Republicans ; John Weiss Forney, editor of the Washington Daily Chronicle, who had paved the way for previous presidential nominations, took up the effort for Grant's nomination, by first inquiring with Rawlins about Grant's interest in the presidency.

First, Grant's relationship with his predecessor Johnson had deteriorated badly, culminating with Johnson's appointment of Grant antagonist William Rosecrans as minister to Mexico.

Grant's attempts to provide justice to Native Americans marked a radical reversal of what had long been the government's policy: " Wars of extermination ... are demoralizing and wicked ," he nobly told Congress.

In Grant's 1916 book, The Passing of the Great Race, Europeans who were not of Germanic origin, but who had Nordic characteristics such as blonde / red hair and blue / green / gray eyes were considered to be a Nordic admixture and suitable for Aryanization.

By Ulysses S. Grant's presidency, the staff had grown to three.

RKO producers had begun to be concerned about the film due to the delays, as well as not liking Grant's glasses or Hepburn's hair.

According to Vito Russo in the book The Celluloid Closet ( 1981, revised 1987 ), the script originally had Grant's character say " I ...

As darkness fell, he chose to call off the attack against Grant's final defensive line, which had contracted into a tight semicircle backed up to the Tennessee River at Pittsburg Landing.

Beatty had lobbied hard for Cary Grant to accept the role of Mr. Jordan, going so far as to have Grant's ex-wife, Dyan Cannon, urge him to take the part.

Until the 1960s the town had a grocery store run by Belle Lutter, who claimed to have ridden Ulysses S. Grant's horse as a girl.