Sterling Point Books
Subtitle: Lee and Grant at Appomattox (Sterling Point Books)
Publisher: Sterling
Published: November 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781402751240
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1900; Historical figures; c 1800 to c 1900; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; History - Military / War; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); USA; United States - Civil War; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); STUDY NOTES - SparkNotes; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; (Ulysses Simpson),; 1822-1885; Appomattox Campaign, 1865; Grant, Ulysses S.; Juvenile literature
Description: MacKinlay Kantor gives us vivid pictures of the two generals and leads us, step by step, to the McLean house at Appommatox where Lee surrendered to Grant. They were no ordinary men, these two, yet they had habits of mind and action that make them seem very much like the people around us. Though this is an account of defeat and victory, animals play an important part in it, too. In the days when jeeps were unknown a good horse was a neccessary part of a general's equipment. But who could love a jeep as General Lee loved his Traveller, a hourse as proud and gray as the man who rode him? No less valiant was General Grant's Cincinnati - a stout-hearted animal, worthy of a great master. Readers everwhere will be stireed by this brillant portrayal of two American heroes who loved the causes for which they fought, but who loved peace and the welfare of their people still more.  (dust jacket)
Notes: CONTENTS 
Foreword 
1 Blazing Torches  
2 Generals Don't All Look Alike  
3 White Flags in the Night  
4 Aching Soul and Aching Head  
5 Gray Man, Gray Heart, Gray Horse 
6 Company at the McLeans' 
7 The General Says Come In  
8 Horses, Mules, and a Sword  
9 'Tell Them to Stop' 
10 Traveller Did Not Understand