In May 1979, while at the album release party for her second album, My Father's Eyes, Grant met Gary Chapman, writer of the title track ( and future husband ).

Grant met with his senior General, William T. Sherman, who advised he was prepared to attack the Confederate stronghold of equal numbers at Corinth, Mississippi.

In March 1865, while Lincoln met at City Point with Grant, Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter, Union forces finally took Petersburg and then captured Richmond in April, after an unsuccessful Confederate assault on Fort Stedman.

In a political move to provide some manner of response, Grant met as a civilian with the opposing party heads and, with his potential use of the armed forces an implicit threat, was able to facilitate a settlement.

One of Keynes's greatest loves was the artist Duncan Grant, whom he met in 1908.

Following Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House and the assassination of President Lincoln, Sherman met with Johnston at Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina, to negotiate a Confederate surrender.

On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee met with Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House.

Under a flag of truce, Eufaula's mayor, Doctor C. J. Pope, and other prominent citizens met General Grierson beyond College Hill with news that General Robert E. Lee had already surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse and that the Civil War was over.

While serving as bandleader with the United Service Organizations ( USO ) during World War II, Blake met and married Marion Grant Tyler, widow of violinist Willy Tyler, in 1945.

These included Neil Gaiman, whom she met in 1987 on a talent-scouting trip, as well as Peter Milligan and Grant Morrison.

In a telegram to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton on May 13, 1864, Grant stated that " Meade has more than met my most sanguine expectations.

He met Grant on the set of Hot Saturday ( 1932 ) where they share only one scene together and shortly afterwards they began rooming together in a beach house in Malibu that became known as " Bachelor Hall.

In his book, Cary Grant: Grant's Secret Sixth Marriage ( 2004 ), Marc Eliot claims Grant had a sexual relationship with Scott after they met on the set of Hot Saturday ( 1932 ).

His career as a musician began when he teamed up with Mike Curb, a friend he met in the choir at Grant High School in Van Nuys, California, to form an instrumental surf combo.

In December, Burnside met with President Lincoln and General Grant about his future.

Notably, Grant claimed that Spare had been a member of the secretive Cult of Ku, a Chinese occult sect who met in Stockwell to worship a serpent goddess.

Rushing to see him at his hospital bed, it was here that Spare's two dearest friends, Kenneth Grant and Frank Letchford, met one another for the first time.

Following his arrival at Halifax, Arthur toured the country for eight weeks and made a visit in January 1870 to Washington, D. C., where he met with President Ulysses S. Grant.

Stanley Berenstain and Janice Grant met in 1941 on their first day of drawing class at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, where they formed an immediate bond.

Cary Grant visited the set and told Hedren, " I think you're the bravest lady I've ever met.

" Ouray also met President Ulysses S. Grant.

Two years after making this statement, Grant met with a representative of the Coca-Cola Company to discuss the church's position on Coca-Cola ; at the conclusion of their second meeting, Grant stated that he was " sure I have not the slightest desire to recommend that the people leave Coca-Cola alone if th amount caffeine in Coca-Cola is absolutely harmless, which they claim it is ".

The governor wrote Miss Grant that he has been concerned for some time `` with the continuous problem which confronts our local and state law enforcement officers as a result of the laws regulating Sunday sales ''.

Grant all this -- still, when modern Unitarianism and the Harvard Divinity School recall with humorous affection the insults Parker lavished upon them, or else argue that after all Parker received the treatment he invited, they betray an uneasy conscience.

President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

The Confederacy lacked reinforcements, so Lee's army shrank with every battle, forcing it back to trenches outside Petersburg, Virginia, where Grant began a siege.

This allowed the president to confer in person with Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman about the hostilities, as Sherman coincidentally managed a hasty visit to Grant from his position in North Carolina.

Lincoln provided Grant with more troops and mobilized his party to renew its support of Grant in the war effort.

Johnston now planned to defeat the Union forces piecemeal before the various Union units in Kentucky and Tennessee under Grant with 40, 000 men at nearby Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, and the now Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell on his way from Nashville with 35, 000 men, could unite against him.

Johnston launched a massive surprise attack with his concentrated forces against Grant at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862.

Johnson's vintage independent streak put him very much at odds with professional military commanders, including Gen. Don Carlos Buell who left Nashville defenseless when he had to reinforce Grant at the Battle of Shiloh.

Ulysses S. Grant, whom Johnson appointed as Stanton's interim successor, advised against the action, but accepted the temporary appointment when Johnson proceeded with Stanton's suspension in August.

Grant made her debut as a teenager, and gained fame in Christian music during the 1980s with such hits as " Father's Eyes ", " El Shaddai ", and " Angels ".

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

In the mid-1980s, Grant began touring and recording with young up-and-coming songwriter Michael W. Smith.

Grant followed up this album with the first of her Christmas albums — albums that later would be the basis for her holiday shows.

Amy Grant scored her first Billboard No. 1 song in 1986 with " The Next Time I Fall ", a duet with former Chicago singer / bassist Peter Cetera.

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

Grant participated in Lifetime's 1st Annual " Girls & Guitars " benefit, singing numerous songs, including a duet with Melissa Etheridge on " You Can Sleep While I Drive ".

The video for " Takes A Little Time " was a new direction for Grant ; with a blue light filter, acoustic guitar, the streets and characters of New York City, and a plot, Grant was re-cast as an adult light rocker.

On August 22, 1848, after a four-year engagement, Grant married Julia Boggs Dent ( 1826 – 1902 ), the daughter of a prominent Missouri plantation and slave owner, and sister of a West Point roommate, Frederick.

After the election, in an attempt to reconcile with Jewish leaders and people, Grant offered the position of Secretary of the Treasury to Joseph Seligman, a prominent Jewish businessman.

Alphonso Taft went to Cincinnati in 1839 to open a law practice, and was a prominent Republican who served as Secretary of War and Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant.

In 1874, with Sherman having become world famous, their eldest child, Marie Ewing (" Minnie ") Sherman, also had a politically prominent wedding, attended by President Ulysses S. Grant and commemorated by a generous gift from the Khedive of Egypt.

On May 10, Grant ordered attacks across the Confederate line of earthworks, which by now extended over 4 miles ( 6. 5 km ), including a prominent salient known as the Mule Shoe.

He was popular with his classmates, however, and befriended a number of men who would become prominent during the Civil War, including George Henry Thomas, William S. Rosecrans, John Pope, D. H. Hill, Lafayette McLaws, George Pickett, and Ulysses S. Grant of the class of 1843.

One of the most prominent and historic churches in Oakland is St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, where U. S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison have all attended services.

In 1967 Rutgers Physics Department had a Centers of Excellence Grant from the NSF which allowed the Physics Department to hire several faculty each year and become a more prominent Institution.

Heart Butte is a prominent geographic feature in Grant County, and the namesake for the nearby Heart Butte Dam.

Coco, prominent Marksville area lawyer ( 1881-1888 ), Judge of the District Court for Avoyelles, Rapides and Grant Parishes ( 1888-1896 ), member of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Louisiana ( New Orleans, 1898 ), Louisiana State Attorney General.

Other prominent persons born and educated in Oamaru include Des Wilson, founder of the UK homelessness charity, Shelter ; Australian Prime Minister Chris Watson ; New Zealand politicians Arnold Nordmeyer and William Steward ; Cardinal Thomas Stafford Williams ; Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of University College London ; and All Blacks rugby union captain Richie McCaw.

Grant, a prominent Mormon.

The settlers who owned the land about Old Stockbridge asked so much for their land that two prominent Atlanta citizens, John W. Grant and George W. Adair, bought a tract about a mile south of Old Stockbridge and offered lots at a reasonable price.

As a result, the recreational and education concepts have become a prominent part of the Grant ’ s management with untold opportunities for use by the Dartmouth Family.

The city is named after John Long, a prominent miner who came to Grant County in 1862 during the Canyon City rush of that same year.

Lord Invader ( Rupert Westmore Grant, 13 December 1914-15 October 1961 ) was a prominent calypsonian with a very distinctive, gravelly voice.

In 1935 Grant was selected along with nearly 30 other prominent British artists of the day to provide works of art for the RMS Queen Mary then being built in Scotland.

Cuthbert Grant ( 1793 – July 15, 1854 ) was a prominent Métis leader of the early nineteenth century.

John Fitzwilliam Stairs, also known as John Fitz William Stairs ( January 19, 1848 – September 26, 1904 ) was an entrepreneur and statesman, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, a member of the prominent Stairs family of merchants and shippers founded by William Machin Stairs ( 1789 – 1865 ) that included the Victorian era explorer, William Grant Stairs.

After ruling out a promotion of a sitting Associate Justice to Chief ( despite much lobbying from the legal community for prominent Justice Samuel Freeman Miller ), Grant offered the Chief Justiceship to Senators Oliver Morton of Indiana and Timothy Howe of Wisconsin, then to his own Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, before finally submitting to the Senate his nomination of Attorney General George H. Williams on December 1.

Contemporaries and friends at York included the future journalists Linda Grant and Peter Hitchens, the latter then a prominent member of the International Socialists.

" Several of her prominent close friends ( among them Betsy Drake, the actress who was once married to Cary Grant ; investigative journalist John Pilger ; writer James Fox ; and Martha's younger brother, Alfred ) have dismissed the characterizations of her as sexually manipulative and maternally deficient.

Working with a range of other Americans prominent in foreign policy, including Father Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame, Norman Cousins of Saturday Review, James Grant of the Overseas Development Council, anthropologist Margaret Mead, World Federalist Chairman H. Donald Wilson, and World Bank president Robert McNamara, Evans organized an organization called New Directions.