Showing Lee and Grant at Appomattox by MacKinlay Kantor
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Presents the story of the historic meeting between General Robert E Lee and General Ulysses S. This text captures the details of those few days: the aristocratic Lee's feeling of resignation; Grant's crippling headaches; and Lee's request - which Grant allowed - to permit his soldiers to keep their horses so they could plant crops for food.