Lee and Grant at Appomattox
by MacKinlay Kantor
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Recounts the dramatic surrender of General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in a new, illustrated edition. From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Andersonville comes the story of an unforgettable moment in American history: the historic meeting between General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant that led to the surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia--and ultimately to the end of the Civil War. MacKinlay Kantor's book for young readers captures all the emotions and drama of show more those few days in April 1865: Lee's mingled sorrow and relief, Grant's generosity toward his late opponent and the nearly starving Confederate soldiers; and the two commanders' negotiation of surrender terms intended to help heal the wounds of more than four years of the most violent conflict in American history. show lessTags
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A thorough review of how the Civil War Armistice was reached by U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee at a house in Appomattox, Virginia on April 9, 1965.
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MacKinlay Kantor is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville, the novel about the horrifying Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Georgia. Kantor is also known as a war correspondent and as the author of the novella and eventual screenplay The Best Years of Our Lives, a film that won seven Academy Awards. Kantor died in 1977 at the age of show more seventy-three. show less
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Landmark Books (8)
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- People/Characters
- Ulysses S. Grant; Robert E. Lee
- Important places
- Appomattox Court House, Virginia, USA
- Important events
- American Civil War (1861 | 1865)
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 14
