Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrast

 Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrast

BA, BABSW, First Year

What are the differences between Grant and Lee?

Each man came from a different background. Lee's was backward-looking, aristocratic, and agrarian, while Grant represented the forward-looking perspective of the industrial North, but both were men of courage and conviction.

 

What is Catton's thesis?

What is Catton's thesis? The thesis in Catton's essay is: “They were two strong men, these oddly different generals, and they represented the strengths of two conflicting currents that, through them, had come into final collision.” 3.

 

What does a study in contrasts mean?

1 to apply the mind to the learning or understanding of (a subject), esp. by reading.

 

What are the two methods for arranging a comparison and contrast essay?

There are two ways to organize a comparison and contrast essay. The first (and often the clearest) method is the Point-by-Point method. The second method is called the Block method.

 

Why according to Catton are succeeding generations of Americans in debt to Grant and Lee?

“Succeeding generations of Americans” are in debt to Grant and Lee because of the way the two men acted at Appomattox. They both put their bitterness to rest so that they could make peace and make their nation one again.

 

What are the areas of focus in Catton's analysis of the two generals?

Civil War Leaders. Catton's analysis focus on many areas of the two generals. He focus on believes, where are they from, and what are their feeling towards life. For example, Lee was from tidewater Virginia, and in his background were family, culture, and tradition.

 

Was Grant or Lee a better general?

Grant was the better general overall. Lee would have been an outstanding Corp commander, but he lacked the strategic ability so necessary for one in his position. To put it another way, Lee knew how to win battles, but Grant knew how to win the war. Lee's aggressive strategy came at a terrible cost for the South.

 

What were two similarities or differences between Grant and Lee that were mentioned in Catton's essay?

Selected Answer: One of the differences between Grant and Lee is that Lee believed in the idea that having different sets of social categories would provide an advantage to society. On the another hand, Grant believed in a balanced social structure that didn't limit anyone to any particular fate.

 

Who did grant represent?

Ulysses Grant (1822-1885) commanded the victorious Union army during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and served as the 18th U.S. president from 1869 to 1877. An Ohio native, Grant graduated from West Point and fought in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).

 

What does the author mean when he says that Grant and Lee brought the war to its virtual finish?

What does the author mean when he says that Grant and Lee brought the war to its “virtual” finish? When the author says the war was brought to its “virtual” finish, he is implying that Grant and Lee initiating a meeting amongst themselves was the beginning of the end of the war.

 

For what reasons does Catton contrast the two generals before he compares them?

In “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts”, Bruce Catton contrasts the two generals before comparing them for two reasons: effect and build. By taking numerous paragraphs to describe both of their personalities, Catton builds up Grant and Lee as two noble men at two very different sides.

 

Why did the meeting at Appomattox signal the closing of a great chapter in American life?

Why did the meeting at Appomattox signal the closing of “a great chapter in American life”(1)? General Grant and General Lee met to discuss the terms of the surrender of General Lee's army. It was a great chapter in American life because the civil war ended. Grant was born in the west so he had to work to survive.

 

Why did the South lose the war?

The South lost the war because the North and Abraham Lincoln were determined to win it. Historian and author of ten books about the war. The South lost because it had inferior resources in every aspect of military personnel and equipment.

 

Why did Robert E Lee fight the south?

Despite his clear affection for the United States, Lee left its army—which brings us to a third level of loyalty. He strongly identified with the slaveholding South, and this loyalty, which aligned nicely with his sense of being a Virginian, helped guide him in the secession crisis.

 

Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrast

BA, BABSW,  First Year

Who was present at Appomattox surrender?

Two noteworthy figures who helped enlarge the surrender at Appomattox into an image of national reconciliation were Confederate general John B. Gordon and Union general Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

 

What if Lee won at Gettysburg?

A Union defeat at Gettysburg would have led to the replacement of George Meade as commander of the Army of the Potomac. In any case, Lee's strategic reasoning for a second invasion of the North was faulty. A Confederate victory in the North would not have won real European support for the Confederacy.

 

How the South won the Civil War?

If the South Had Won the Civil War is a 1961 alternate history book by MacKinlay Kantor, a writer who also wrote several novels about the American Civil War as it actually happened. It was originally published in the November 22, 1960, issue of Look magazine.