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Ulysses S. Grant ( born Hiram Ulysses Grant ; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885 ) was the 18th President of the United States ( 1869 – 1877 ) following his dominant role in the second half of the Civil War.
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Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including commanding general Ulysses S. Grant.
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.
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant an excuse to take control of the even more important and strategically located town of Paducah, Kentucky without raising the ire of most Kentuckians and the pro-Union majority in the State legislature.
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.
* 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins – in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
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.
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.
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.
* 1865 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia ( 26, 765 troops ) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends – the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
( The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.
* 1933 – U. S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
* 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
In 1868, Douglass supported the presidential campaign of Ulysses S. Grant.
* 1870 – President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U. S. Weather Bureau.
* 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
A dispute with Britain over the island of Bolama was settled in Portugal's favor with the involvement of U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant.
Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
* 1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
* 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg – Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege.
* 1881 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier ( d. 1968 )
On April 3, 1865, with Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant poised to capture Richmond, Davis escaped for Danville, Virginia, together with the Confederate Cabinet, leaving on the Richmond and Danville Railroad.
* 1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
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His father, Ulysses F. Doubleday, fought in the War of 1812, published newspapers and books, and represented Auburn, New York for four years in the United States Congress.
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* 1893 – Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist ( d. 1977 )
* 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.
* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain – Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
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Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822.
* Ulysses Gomez ( born 1983 ), Mexican-American mixed martial arts fighter
Clermont County was home to President and military hero, General Ulysses S. Grant, born in Point Pleasant on April 27, 1822.
* Ulysses John " Tony " Lupien, Major League baseball player and the baseball coach at Dartmouth College for 21 seasons, born in Chelmsford in 1917
Ulysses Adrian " Roy " Wood ( born 8 November 1946 ) is an English singer-songwriter and musician.
Freeman Thorp ( 1844 – 1922 ), born in Geneva, Ohio, was an American painter who painted portraits of many notable people such as Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses Grant, Simon Cameron, Salmon Chase, Robert Smith, Horace Greeley, Walter Forward and Robert E. Lee.
Schneider asked them to first play his set of 10 songs, and Ulysses was born.
This effect is seen in the zebroid Eclyse ( a hebra rather than a zorse ) born in Stukenbrock, Germany in 2007 to a zebra mare called Eclipse and a stallion called Ulysses.
Ulysses Cuadra Jr. ( born 1987 ) is an American actor and voice actor involved in cinema, television, and animation.
Lupien was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, the son of Eugenie ( née Gosselin ) and Ulysses J. Lupien.
Stirling has a son, Ulysses, born in January 2004.
Nicholas was born to drummer and orchestra leader Ulysses Domonick and pianist Viola Harden in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
They were married in Chicago and had two children: Julia Dent Grant ( born 1876 ) and Ulysses III ( born 1881 ).
Dew was born November 21, 1953, in Ulysses, Kansas, to Charles and JoAnn Peterson Dew.
Pulliam was born in a sod dugout house in Ulysses, Kansas, the son of the Reverend Irvin Brown and Martha Ellen ( Collins ) Pulliam, Methodist missionaries sent to plant churches in the frontier towns of western Kansas.
Bloch was born as Belle Scott in Pelham, New York to Edith Grace ( née Crowley ) and Ulysses S. Grant Scott, a salesman.
Ulysses Lugman was born in Miami, Florida.
Grant was born in Bethel, Ohio to Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Grant.
They had five children: Miriam ( born 1881 ), Chaffee ( born 1883 ), Julia ( born 1885 ), Fannie ( born 1889 ), and Ulysses IV ( born 1893 ).
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