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.

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.

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.

The team of screenwriters took the main suspect of the novel, Robert Tisdall, and his unexpected, initially reluctant supporter, Erica Burgoyne, and left out all the other characters, including Tey's Inspector Alan Grant and even the original murderer ( who is not the same character as in the film ).

* 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.

More than any other president, Grant had to respond to Congressional investigations into financial corruption charges of all federal departments.

Gen. Halleck transferred command of the Army of the Tennessee to Gen. George H. Thomas and effectively demoted Grant to the hollow position of second-in-command of all the armies of the west.

A distinguishing characteristic in the Grant Presidency was his concern with the plight of African Americans and native Indian tribes, in addition to civil rights for all Americans.

President Grant faced financial corruption charges or scandals in all federal departments during his two terms in office.

Viz also lampoons political ideas-both left-wing ideals, in strips such as " The Modern Parents " ( and to an extent in Student Grant ), and right-wing ones such as " Baxter Basics ", " Major Misunderstanding ", " Victorian Dad " and numerous strips involving tabloid columnists Garry Bushell (" Garry Bushell the Bear ") and Richard Littlejohn (" Richard Littlecock " and " Robin Hood and Richard Littlejohn "), portraying them as obsessed with homosexuality, political correctness and non-existent left-wing conspiracies to the exclusion of all else.

** 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.

* December 17 – General Order No. 11, which expelled all Jews from his military district, is issued by General Ulysses S. Grant.

* March 9 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln appoints Ulysses S. Grant commander in chief of all Union armies.

Garfield was not at all enthused about the re-election of President Grant in 1872 — until Horace Greeley emerged as the only potential alternative.

Almost all delegates were instructed to support Frémont, with a major exception being the New York delegation, which was composed of War Democrats who supported Ulysses S. Grant.

Of the male members of the early Bloomsbury Group, all but Duncan Grant were educated at Trinity or King ’ s.

Subsequent biographies of Strachey then Virginia Woolf, Forster, Keynes, Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Grant removed all veils.

Years later, when asked to name his all-time favorite actress, Grant replied without hesitation: " Well, with all due respect to dear Ingrid Bergman, I much preferred Grace.

He worked all his life to change public opinion about his role in the battle, going so far as to beg Grant to " set things right " in his memoir.

Tate was quoted as saying, " I learned a great deal about acting in of the Dolls, particularly in my scenes with Lee Grant ... She knows what acting is all about and everything she does, from little mannerisms to delivering her lines, is pure professionalism.

When Lincoln called Grant east in the spring of 1864 to take command of all the Union armies, Grant appointed Sherman ( by then known to his soldiers as " Uncle Billy ") to succeed him as head of the Military Division of the Mississippi, which entailed command of Union troops in the Western Theater of the war.

President Johnson sent Grant on a fact finding tour of the South after which he filed a report recommending continuation of the Freedman's Bureau but opposed use of black troops in garrisons which were still needed in the South for protection of both races.

At the outset, Garfield's relationship with the newly inaugurated President was cool on both sides ; Grant refused a requested post office appointment which Garfield recommended ; Garfield, out of loyalty to his army commander, still harbored some resentment for Grant's dismissal of Rosecrans.

This 1893 sketch of the Art Institute of Chicago shows most of today's Grant Park still submerged under Lake Michigan with railroad tracks running along the shoreline behind the Museum

Reviews of B-Sides and Rarities were generally good ; Devin Grant of The Post and Courier wrote that " For an album full of odds and ends, this Cake release is every bit as good, and every bit as fun, as the band's previous studio releases ", while Catherine P. Lewis of The Washington Post noted that, although several live tracks reduced the album's strength, " there are still enough charming nuggets to make this album less disposable than the typical rarities compilation ".

Stars featured in the film included Charlotte Henry as Alice, W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Edna May Oliver as the Red Queen, Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle ( Grant's star was still on the ascent at the time ), Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Edward Everett Horton as The Hatter, Charles Ruggles as The March Hare, and Baby LeRoy as The Joker.

But there ’ s nothing dated about this perfect storm of talent, from Hitchcock and Grant to writer Ernest Lehman ( Sweet Smell of Success ), co-stars James Mason and Eva Marie Saint, composer Bernard Herrmann and even designer Saul Bass, whose opening-credits sequence still manages to send a shiver down the spine.

* Ulysses S. Grant, Union general who had commandeered Cherry Mansion for use as a headquarters ( still standing as of 2008 ).

This corporation later surrendered the bonds to the new Saint Louis and Santa Fe Railroad, from whence they were still later assigned to the Land Grant Railroad & Construction Company of New York.

However, there is still the question about " home guard " actions ( similar to portrayed in movie / book " Cold Mountain ") actions to capture Confederate deserters-when it fact it was an attempt to force re-conscription of Confederate soldiers pardoned by Grant after the surrender of Vicksburg.

The line is still in service north of State Road 26, between Hartford City and Upland in Grant County.

At the top of Bradshaw, along the American River, close to the oak tree that marked the northwest boundary of the Spanish Land Grant, Rancho Rio De Los Americanos, there are still some remains of foundations.

However, the small town of Grant, Minnesota, still exists in the same vicinity.

" Idlewilde ", still present on Main Street, hosted the Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro II, when he was visiting Philadelphia to open the 1876 U. S. Centennial Exhibition with President Ulysses S. Grant.

According to musical instrument scholar Grant O ' Brien, the inverted wrestplank is " still to be found in pianos dating from a period 150 years after death.

" Some Trotskyists referred to the new group, still known internally as the Revolutionary Socialist League, as the Grantites after their leading ideologue, Ted Grant.

Grant the vastness of the Universe and the sizes of the stars to be as great as you like — these will still bear no proportion to the infinite Creator.

This included inconsistent reasons given for rewrites of his material, the inability of editors to explain to him basic aspects of the New 52 Superman's status quo ( such as whether his adoptive parents were still alive ), and restrictions imposed by having to be consistent with Action Comics, which is set five years earlier than Superman, a situation complicated by the fact that Action writer Grant Morrison was not forthcoming about his plans.

The election was still unsettled in the spring, and both Republican and Fusionists, who carried Democratic backing, had certified their own slates for the local offices of sheriff ( Christopher Columbus Nash ) and justice of the peace in Grant Parish, where Colfax is the parish seat.

They were still over-reliant on 13 goal top-scorer Sandy McNaughton ( in his last season at East End Park ) but Grant Jenkins chipped in with 7.

However, with communications still jammed, Grant is unable to warn the REF ships of this discovery, and has no choice but to retreat while the remaining ships are left to fight a hopeless battle.

Mould and Grant Hart, the band's other songwriter and vocalist, still take occasional jabs at each other in the press, though the two briefly revisited their Hüsker Dü back catalog together at a 2004 benefit concert for an ailing friend, the late Karl Mueller of Soul Asylum.

However, with communications still jammed, Grant is unable to warn the REF ships of this discovery, and has no choice but to retreat while the remaining ships are left to fight a hopeless battle.

Venancio Sanchez still claimed a half share of the Fornells Grant, two of the town lots had been sold to William Harney around 1840, and Osborne and Field had their deed from the Florida Internal Improvement Fund.

Grant was still performing as of 2010 ; she headlined with The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies in Palm Springs, California.