Compare And Contrast Grant And Lee

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Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts

“Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts”, by Bruce Catton. Grant and Lee both had a big impact on American history through their differences and similarities between one another.

“Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts” is a comparison essay between two American generals Grant and Lee. Grant and Lee both met at the “Appomattox Court House,Virginia, on April.9,1865” (193) to end the Civil War. Both very strong and different generals from one another. Grant and Lee were strong generals because they both were able to fight to put an end to slavery in the United States and build up the United States back together again without Slavery. “Grant and Lee however, were different from one another by, Lee focused on his own region but Grant focused on a more broader society(Langley D. “Bruce Catton, “Grant and Lee” ”. Rockland Community College, November.2017. Class Handout #4 Answer) ”. “Grant is more modern whereas Lee is symbolizing the age of Chivalry(Langley D. “Bruce Catton, “Grant and Lee” ”. Rockland Community College, November.2017. Class Handout #4 Answer )”.
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“They were two strong men, these oddly different generals, and they represented the strengths of two conflicting currents that , through them,had come into final collision”(194).This is an example of word choice as Catton describes how both Grant and Lee are both different from one another and how “they represent the strengths of two conflicting