Reading Time: 4 minutesBefore the Civil War, few Americans could have imagined that the two men who would become the conflict’s defining generals came from such different worlds. Robert E. Lee embodied the traditions of the Southern planter aristocracy, while Ulysses S. Grant represented the steady, practical virtues of the growing American middle class. Their contrasting backgrounds shaped […]

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