Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including commanding general Ulysses S. Grant.

Bruce Lincoln further traces Geri back to a Proto-Indo-European stem * gher -, which is the same as that found in Garmr, a name referring to the hound closely associated with the events of Ragnarök.

Today, Interstate 80 is the cross-country highway most closely aligned with the Lincoln Highway.

30 which closely followed the path of the Lincoln Highway across this summit.

In that capacity, Wilson passed on over 15, 000 nominations that Lincoln submitted during the course of the War, and worked closely with him on legislation affecting the Army and Navy.

Geographically north central Louisiana and more closely resembles Lincoln Parish, to which Union is deeply tied culturally, politically, and educationally.

Novelists closely associated with the genre include Eric Ambler, Ted Bell, Dan Brown, Lincoln Child, Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, Michael Crichton, Nelson DeMille, Ian Fleming, Ken Follett, Frederick Forsyth, Graham Greene, John Grisham, Robert Ludlum, Alistair MacLean, Andy McNab, David Morrell, James Phelan, Douglas Preston, and Matthew Reilly.

One of the most learned statesmen of the era, he specialized in foreign affairs, working closely with Abraham Lincoln to keep the British and the French from intervening on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Although Lincoln was a former Whig, the prominent former Whig Judge Theophilus Lyle Dickey said that Lincoln was too closely tied to the abolitionists, and supported Douglas.

In 1981, the Town Car became a separate model from the Continental in preparation for further downsizing of the latter ; aside from the closely related Continental Mark VI, it became the last full-size Lincoln in the lineup.

Cranston was reprimanded by the U. S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics for " improper conduct " on November 20, 1991 after Lincoln Savings head Charles Keating's companies contributed $ 850, 000 to voter registration groups closely affiliated with the senator.

Elwood Engel, famous for being lead designer of generation four of the Lincoln Continental and for his work as chief designer at Chrysler in the 1960s, was Staff Stylist ( and consequently roamed all of the design studios ) at Ford during this period and worked very closely with John Najjar in developing not only the 1958, but also the 1959 update.

After John Najjar was relieved of his responsibilities as Chief Stylist of Lincoln in 1957 he became Engel's executive assistant, and the two worked closely together in the " stilleto studio " in developing the fourth generation Lincoln Continental, which of course won an award for its superlative styling.

Those most closely related to the Fairmont included the 1980 – 1982 Ford Thunderbird, the 1981 – 1982 Ford Granada, the 1979 – 1993 Ford Mustang ( and 1979 – 1986 Mercury Capri ), and the 1982 – 1987 Lincoln Continental.

As a Senator, Howard is credited with working closely with Abraham Lincoln in drafting and passing the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery.

In Lincoln, Nebraska, Martin was once sitting at a railroad crossing and a fellow that closely resembled his chief boom operator, Willie Wilson, passed by sitting in a boxcar.

It is based fairly closely on the style of Lincoln Cathedral, the tracery of the huge chancel window being almost a replica of that at Lincoln.

Other names for this method, or closely related methods, include capture-recapture, capture-mark-recapture, mark-recapture, sight-resight, mark-release-recapture, multiple systems estimation, band recovery, the Petersen method, and the Lincoln method.

* Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948-91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002, and Pollack's book reviewed in International Security, Vol.

* Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948-91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002, and Pollack's book reviewed in International Security, Vol.

President Lincoln reviewed the record and pardoned 265, believing they had been involved in legitimate defense against military forces.

President Lincoln reviewed the letter, softened the language, and told Adams not to give Russell a copy but to limit himself to quoting only those portions that Adams thought appropriate.

While some historians have questioned whether there was in fact a romantic relationship between her and Lincoln, historian John Y. Simon reviewed the historiography of the subject and concluded, " Available evidence overwhelmingly indicates that Lincoln so loved Ann that her death plunged him into severe depression.

Historian John Y. Simon reviewed the historiography of the subject and concluded, " Available evidence overwhelmingly indicates that Lincoln so loved Ann that her death plunged him into severe depression.

Lincoln dispatches West and Gordon to find out what Grant drinks.

Lincoln was with Senator Orville Browning when Seward brought in the first newspaper dispatches, which indicated Palmerston was demanding a release of the prisoners and an apology.

There were about five and a half days rations of coffee, and less than two days of bread and salt left ; the distance to the Black Hills was definitely not known, and the Ree Indian scouts, who alone knew anything of the intervening country, left us at this point to carry dispatches to Fort Lincoln.

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.

In 1861 President Lincoln instituted a naval blockade of Southern ports, which crippled the South's efforts to obtain war materials from abroad.

After his army was beaten at Lincoln on 20 May 1217, and his naval forces ( led by Eustace the Monk ) were defeated off the coast of Sandwich on 24 August 1217, he was forced to make peace on English terms.

The son of a naval officer, Ainsworth was educated at the Ludgrove School in Wokingham, Bradfield College, and Lincoln College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1979, with an MA in English Literature and Language.

* George Lincoln Rockwell, naval commander, founder of American Nazi Party

The Union commander of all armies, Henry Wager Halleck stated to Banks that President Lincoln “ regards the opening of the Mississippi River as the first and most important of all our military and naval operations, and it is hoped that you will not lose a moment in accomplishing it .” On December 4, 1862, Banks and his expedition put to sea for New Orleans.

On April 4, as the supply situation on Sumter became critical, President Lincoln ordered a relief expedition, to be commanded by former naval captain ( and future Assistant Secretary of the Navy ) Gustavus V. Fox, who had proposed a plan for nighttime landings of smaller vessels than the Star of the West.

However, under pressure from President Lincoln to take offensive action, Halleck reconsidered and Grant conducted operations with naval and land forces against Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862, capturing both, along with 14, 000 Confederates.

General Benjamin Lincoln, commanding those forces, knew that he could not recapture Savannah without naval assistance ; for this he turned to the French, who had entered the war as an American ally in 1778.

In his journal for November 6, 1860, he wrote: " At Town House, and cast my vote for Lincoln and the Republican candidates generally — the first vote I ever cast for a President and State officers.

Custer ( extreme right ) with Abraham Lincoln | President Lincoln, George B. McClellan and other officers at the Battle of Antietam, 1862

After the meeting, Lincoln issued another order, naming specific officers as corps commanders to report to McClellan ( who had been reluctant to do so prior to assessing his division commanders ' effectiveness in combat, even though this would have meant his direct supervision of twelve divisions in the field ).

Lincoln, Stanton, and a group of officers called the " War Board " directed the strategic actions of the Union armies that spring.

Federal officers arrested Theodore Kaczynski on April 3, 1996, at his remote cabin outside Lincoln under suspicion of being the " Unabomber ", a political terrorist who placed pressure-sensitive bombs inside mailed packages.

Lincoln chose the latter option on January 26 and replaced him with Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, one of the officers who had conspired against Burnside.

A commonly referenced reason why Arnold chose to remain is that a petition signed by all of the line officers except Gates and Lincoln convinced him to stay.

After the meeting, Lincoln issued another order, naming specific officers as corps commanders to report to McClellan ( who had been reluctant to do so prior to assessing his division commanders ' effectiveness in combat, even though this would have meant his direct supervision of twelve divisions in the field ).

" Although Lincoln claimed to capture 150 men, none of them were officers, leading historian Leonard Richards to suspect the veracity of the report.

The men could elect the junior officers, while the governor appointed the senior officers, and Lincoln appointed the generals.

Pope was serving on lighthouse duty when Abraham Lincoln was elected and he was one of four officers selected to escort the president-elect to Washington, D. C.

President Lincoln, his wife Mary, and some officers rode out to observe the attack, either on July 11th or the 12th, and were briefly under enemy fire that wounded a Union surgeon standing next to Lincoln on the Fort Stevens parapet.

Early remarked to one of his officers after the battle, " Major, we didn't take Washington but we scared Abe Lincoln like hell.

The detachment of the ( local ) Lincoln Militia who fought at the battle lost 5 officers and 80 other ranks, although only four of these seem to have been killed.

Black members also fought in the Spanish Civil War, where the Lincoln Brigade was the first American military force to include blacks and whites integrated on an equal basis and black officers commanding white troops.

With his vast combat experience and with the growing need in the expanding army for senior officers, he was promoted again by President Lincoln on April 30, 1862, to rank from April 28, 1862, to brigadier general of volunteers.