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Crucible of commmand : Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee -- the war they fought, the peace they forged /

They met in person only four times, yet these two men - Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee - determined the outcome of America's most divisive war and cast larger-than-life shadows over their reunited nation. They came from vastly different backgrounds: Lee from a distinguished family of waning...

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Main Authors: Davis, William C., 1946
Published: Da Capo Press, a Member of the Perseus Books Group,
Publisher Address: Boston, MA :
Publication Dates: [2014]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Grant, Ulysses S. > Ulysses Simpson, > 1822-1885
Lee, Robert E. > Robert Edward, > 1807-1870
United States. > Army > Biography
Confederate States of America. > Army > Biography
Generals > United States > Biography
Generals > Confederate States of America > Biography
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography
Summary: They met in person only four times, yet these two men - Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee - determined the outcome of America's most divisive war and cast larger-than-life shadows over their reunited nation. They came from vastly different backgrounds: Lee from a distinguished family of waning fortunes; Grant, a young man on the make in a new America. Differing circumstances colored their outlooks on life: Lee, the melancholy realist; Grant, the incurable optimist. Then came the Civil War that made them both commanders of armies, leaders of men, and heroes to the multitudes of Americans the
Carrier Form: xxi, 629 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-607) and index.
ISBN: 9780306822452
0306822458
Index Number: E467
CLC: K837.125.2
Call Number: K837.125.2/G763D
Contents: Icons -- Sons and fathers -- School of the soldier -- Fighting on the same side -- Times of trial -- A crisis made for them -- "What has become of Gen. Lee?", "Who is General Grant?" -- Lee frustrated and Grant victorious -- Shiloh and sevens -- Lee victorious and Grant frustrated -- "What have we to live for if not victories?" -- Two rivers to cross -- July 1863 -- Hints of the inevitable -- "If defeated nothing will be left us to live for" -- "A mere question of time" -- Meeting again -- Grant and Lee in 1868 -- The last meeting.

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