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.

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.

* 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.

While President Hayes did not seek renomination, former President Ulysses S. Grant ( 1869 – 1877 ) openly sought nomination to a third term.

General Ulysses S. Grant had sought Banks ' removal for months, but U. S. President Abraham Lincoln would not dismiss Banks, who had strong political support in Congress.

Before Franklin D. Roosevelt, attempts at a third term were encouraged by supporters of Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt ; neither of these attempts succeeded.

Garfield defeated the front runner Ulysses S. Grant's controversial third term bid for the nomination.

During the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant ( 1869-1877 ), Brentwood Mansion was a center of Washington social life, with many parties hosted by Elizabeth ( Eliza ) Worthington Patterson ( daughter of Joseph Pearson and his third wife Catherine Worthington Pearson ) and her husband Carlile Pollock Patterson.

Other notable Stalwarts include Chester A. Arthur and Thomas C. Platt, who were in favor of Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth President of the United States ( 1869 – 1877 ), running for a third term.

Although he was only acting Secretary of Defense, and never confirmed as the permanent Secretary, he became the third member of his family to hold a position as civilian head of a military department, following his great-great-grandfather Alphonso Taft ( under President Ulysses S. Grant ) and his great-grandfather William Howard Taft ( under President Theodore Roosevelt ).

When Ulysses S. Grant launched his spring offensive of 1864, two Union armies marched towards Richmond and a third moved into the Shenandoah Valley.

In 2005, the book, Baghdad Burning, won third place for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage and in 2006 it was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873, during the third and fourth years of Ulysses S. Grant's presidency.

* March 4 – President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant begins his second term.

One story states that the term originated at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, where it was used by Ulysses S. Grant to describe the political wheelers and dealers who frequented the hotel's lobby to access Grant — who was often there to enjoy a cigar and brandy.

Stephan Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses ( novel ) uses the term to comment on the time being eleven o ' clock, with eleven being a proparoxytone:

The town, founded in 1869, is named for the vice president of the United States, Schuyler M. Colfax, who served in the first term of U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant, for whom the parish is named.

* Colloquial term for a United States fifty-dollar bill which bears a portrait of President Ulysses S. Grant

Bloomsday ( a term Joyce himself did not employ ) was invented in 1954, on the 50th anniversary of the events in the novel, when John Ryan ( artist, critic, publican and founder of Envoy magazine ) and the novelist Brian O ' Nolan organised what was to be a daylong pilgrimage along the Ulysses route.

* In the " Proteus " episode of Ulysses, James Joyce used the term in an ironic context.

He argues that " Ulysses " forms part of the prehistory of imperialism — a term that only appeared in the language in 1851.

It appears that the term " Army of the Tennessee " was first used within the Union Army in March 1862, to describe Union forces perhaps more properly described as the " Army of West Tennessee "; these were the troops under the command of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Union's District of West Tennessee.

Soon after ending his second term, Curtin switched to the Democratic political party, and was appointed Ambassador to Russia by President Ulysses S. Grant.

Roosevelt had borrowed the term “ unconditional surrender ” from General Ulysses S. Grant who had communicated this stance to the Confederate commander at Forts Donelson and Henry during the American Civil War.

The U. S. House election, 1874 was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1874, which occurred in the middle of President Ulysses S. Grant's second term with a deep economic depression underway.

The U. S. House election, 1870 was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1870 which occurred in the middle of President Ulysses S. Grant's first term.

He campaigned for President Ulysses S. Grant and advocated a six-year presidential term.