Lee and Grant at Appomattox (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: MacKinlay Kantor
- First Published: 1950
- Time of Work: April, 1865
- Setting: Farmville, Appomattox, and Appomattox County, Virginia
- Principal Characters: General Ulysses S. Grant, General Robert E. Lee
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Leadership, Civil War, War, Military life or service, Biography, Generals
- Locales: Appomattox, VA
Form and Content
In Lee and Grant at Appomattox, MacKinlay Kantor discusses the feelings of a defeated army and a victorious army, the different backgrounds and military careers of their opposing supreme commanders, and the pride of General Robert E. Lee and the generosity and compassion of General Ulysses S. Grant. In every chapter, two or three illustrations by Donald McKay reflect Kantor’s key themes.
The first and last chapters of the book clearly portray the bitterness between the North and the South that would last for generations. One chapter describes...
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