Lee and Grant at Appomattox

Lee and Grant at Appomattox
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Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : 1402751249
ISBN-13 : 9781402751240
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Book Synopsis Lee and Grant at Appomattox by : MacKinlay Kantor

Download or read book Lee and Grant at Appomattox written by MacKinlay Kantor and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Pulitzer Prize winner comes the story of an unforgettable moment in American history: the historic meeting between General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant that ended the Civil War. MacKinlay Kantor captures all the emotions and the details of those few days: the aristocratic Lee’s feeling of resignation; Grant’s crippling headaches; and Lee’s request--which Grant generously allowed--to permit his soldiers to keep their horses so they could plant crops for food.


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