Grade Range: 5-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, ArtifactsDate Posted: 12/30/2010
In September 1861 Ulysses S. Grant was appointed Brigadier General of Volunteers by President Abraham Lincoln. Grant directed Sherman to drive through the South while he himself, with the Army of the Potomac, pinned down Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. On April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Lee surrendered. Grant wrote out magnanimous terms of surrender that would prevent treason trials.
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This camp chair was used by Ulysses Grant during the Civil War.
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Fleishman's depiction of the first Civil War battle relies on individual voices to give a human f...
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