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 ''.

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.

Writer Alan Grant has stated, " The Batman I wrote for 13 years isn't gay.

Kate Lock also wrote four novels centred around more recent characters ; Steve Owen, Grant Mitchell, Bianca Jackson and Tiffany Mitchell.

An associate of Douglass wrote of Grant that African Americans " will ever cherish a grateful remembrance of his name, fame and great services.

Most recently, finance writer James Grant wrote the biography entitled, " Mr. Speaker!

This term was often used neutrally in British circles at that time, and was not necessarily an expression of negative feelings, as when, for example, he wrote to Duncan Grant that “ the only really

President Garfield wrote Grant a stern letter in reply that stated he would not be bound by party patronage and would appoint " men who represented any valuable element in the Republican party.

Although Sherman was technically the senior officer at this time, he wrote to Grant, " I feel anxious about you as I know the great facilities Confederates have of concentration by means of the River and R Road, but have faith in you — Command me in any way.

As Grant took overall command of the armies of the United States, Sherman wrote to him outlining his strategy to bring the war to an end concluding that " if you can whip Lee and I can march to the Atlantic I think ol ' Uncle Abe will give us twenty days leave to see the young folks.

Sherman wrote both to his brother, Senator John Sherman, and to General Grant vehemently repudiating any such promotion.

" Hence, in 1867, he wrote to Grant that " we are not going to let a few thieving, ragged Indians check and stop the progress of railroads.

" After the 1866 Fetterman Massacre, Sherman wrote Grant that " we must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children.

However, his conversion to the Republican Party and his cooperation with his old friend, President Ulysses S. Grant, as well as critical comments he wrote in his memoirs about General Lee's wartime performance, made him anathema to many of his former Confederate colleagues.

Grant wrote to Chief of Staff Henry W. Halleck, " It was the saddest affair I have witnessed in this war.

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 ".

In five of the mystery novels she wrote under the name of Tey, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant.

In the 2008 presidential election, 70. 97 % of Grant County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 26. 05 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3. 94 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

These numbers show a small but definite shift towards the Democratic candidate when compared to the 2004 presidential election, in which 78. 9 % of Grant County voters voted for George W. Bush, while 19. 2 % voted for John Kerry, and. 9 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

While working for this ministry, Mullins wrote a song called " Sing Your Praise To The Lord " which was recorded by singer Amy Grant in 1982 and became an immediate hit on Christian Radio.

Ordinary Southerners wrote to President Grant at the White House describing the terrible conditions of violence and fear they lived under during these times.

Terry wrote to Grant attesting to the advantages of Custer's leading the expedition.

" Using the pen name of Maxwell Grant and claiming the stories were " from The Shadow's private annals as told to " him, Gibson wrote 282 out of 325 tales over the next 20 years: a novel-length story twice a month ( 1st and 15th ).

Grant Morrison, whose pre-Vertigo work on Animal Man and Doom Patrol was similarly retroactively branded as " Vertigo " when collected, also wrote two issues of Hellblazer pre-Vertigo, which are collected in a 2005 trade paperback.

Grant later wrote that this incident gave him a more favorable opinion of Meade than the great victory at Gettysburg.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

His campaign was backed by a series of articles in the Daily Telegraph in which Kenneth Clarke ( the Secretary of Justice ) and Grant Shapps ( Minister of Housing ) were reported to be backing the move.

Charles A. Dana, an investigative agent for Secretary of War Stanton at the time, interviewed Grant ; Dana related to Lincoln and Stanton that Grant appeared " self-possessed and eager to make war.

Later in April, Gen. Sherman, without consulting Washington, concluded an agreement with Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to effect the latter's surrender, believing it to be consistent with Lincoln's recent statements to him at City Point ; Secretary Stanton and Grant quickly surmised the terms were much too lenient.

At the same time, Johnson also suspected Grant to be a potential rival candidate in the 1868 presidential election, and decided to replace Secretary of War Stanton with Grant or Gen. Sherman.

President Johnson had for some time wished to replace Secretary of War Stanton, who sympathized with Congressional Reconstruction, and asked Grant to take the post in an effort to keep him in his camp, and under his control as a potential political rival.

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.

Secretary Fish decided to resign over the affair, however, Grant was able to convince Fish to remain on his Cabinet.

In 1871, Grant ’ s Secretary of State Hamilton Fish orchestrated the negotiation.

Grant appointed reformer Benjamin Bristow to the Secretary of Treasury in 1874, who uncovered and shut down the notorious Whiskey Ring.

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.

As Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy told Eisenhower: " Lincoln's remark after they got after Grant comes to mind when I think of Patton – ' I can't spare this man, he fights '.

Grant won favor with the Radicals after he allowed Edwin M. Stanton, a Radical, to be reinstated as Secretary of War.

Both Johnson and Grant, as well as several members of the Seward family, thought the Secretary was near death.

Seward retired as Secretary of State after Ulysses S. Grant took office as president.

Offered a position ( and $ 10, 000 in gold ) as adjutant general of the army of Benito Juárez of Mexico, who was then in a struggle with the Mexican Emperor Maximilian I ( a satellite ruler of French Emperor Napoleon III ), Custer applied for a one-year leave of absence from the U. S. Army, which was endorsed by Grant and Secretary of War Stanton.

* George M. Robeson, Union Army general during the American Civil War, and United States Secretary of the Navy during the Grant administration.

State Papers of Vermont, Volume One: Index to the Papers of the Surveyors-General ( VT Secretary of State, 1918 ) lists it as " Warner's Grant or Warner's Gore " ( p. 154 ).

State Papers of Vermont, Volume One: Index to the Papers of the Surveyors-General ( VT Secretary of State, 1918 ) lists the name as " Warren's Gore, one of two tracts in Vt. Grant to John Throop and associates, Oct. 27, 1789, as Warren.

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.

His paternal grandfather, Hamilton Fish, was United States Secretary of State under President Ulysses S. Grant.

All of these choices were rejected by either Grant or the War Department and, over the objection of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who believed him to be too young for such a high post, Sheridan took command in both roles at Harpers Ferry on August 7, 1864.