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If Grant can be criticized for Cold Harbor in 1864, Lee must answer for Malvern Hill and Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg. The Lost Cause mythology notwithstanding, I happen to believe that Lee ...

When the National Park Service observed the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in 2015, it invited Thomas Jessee to portray Lee and Curt Fields, Grant.

One hundred fifty years ago, in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Ulysses S. Grant won the Civil War.* His chief opponent, Gen. Robert E. Lee of the Confederate States, had surrendered, all but ...

When the National Park Service observed the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in 2015, it invited Thomas Jessee to portray Lee and Curt Fields, Grant.

How much of the surrender, the “gentlemen’s agreement” as it was called, was dependent on the personalities of Lee and Grant? It was huge. The chemistry, the towering reputations of both men.

Grant had become somewhat overconfident, writing May 26 that “Lee’s army is really whipped. The prisoners we now take show it, and the action of his army shows it unmistakably.

The key engagement of the Battle of Cold Harbor began 150 years ago this morning. Gen. U.S. Grant, commander of all Union armies, and having attached himself to Gen. George Meade’s Army of the ...