Identifier: livescampaignsof00odel (find matches)
Title: The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Odel, Samuel W Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909 Newman, John Philip, Bp., 1826-1899
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Publisher: Chicago, Star publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ters—On Picket 388 General Ulysses S. Grant 397 General Robert E. Lee 400 Map of the Wilderness 411 ILLUSTRATIONS Crossing the Rapidan 413 Fighting in the Wilderness 419 Scene of Wadsworths Death 428 Spottsylvania Court House 437 Map of Battle of Spottsylvania 443 Map of Battle of North Anna 461 Jericho Mills, North Anna 463 Quarles Mill, North Anna 464 Rifle Pits, North Anna 466 Crossing the North Anna 468 Crossing the Pamunkey 47° Map of Battle of Cold Harbor 474 Battle of Cold Harbor 481 Birdseye View of Virginia Campaign 487 Petersburg 489 Map of Defences of Richmond and Petersburg 495 A Mortar Battery 499 Explosion of the Mine 5°^ Battle of Winchester 515 Grants Headquarters at City Point 5^8 View of Works near Petersburg 5^2 General Philip H. Sheridan 5^9 Map of Battle of Five Forks 534 Union Army Entering Petersburg 541 Map of Lees Retreat 543 McLeans Home 549 Facsimile of Grants Letter 552 Lees Army at Time of Surrender 555 The Surrender of Johnston $60 Grants Tomb 57<5
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MAJOR-GENERAL OLIVER O. HOWARD. Ifntrobuction. REMINISCENCES OF GENERALS GRANT AND LEE BY MAJOR-GENERAL O. O. HOWARD, U. S. A. My first remembrance of Robert E. Lee was when hewas a captain of engineers and visited the Academy atWest Point. His son Custis was a classmate of mine andso, naturally, all eyes turned upon the distinguished CaptainLee, at the visit of which I speak. He was then very younglooking. He seemed about five feet-ten in height; of afigure without corpulency. He had on the uniform ofEngineers, probably being upon inspection duty at theAcademy at that time. His head seemed a little too largefor his body, and he had an abundance of hair, somewhat curly, just sprinkled with gray. His eyes were large,clear and black. He looked you steadily in the facewhile in conversation. He appeared to be as fine a speci-men of manhood as I had ever seen. He had been brevetedfor his grand service in the Mexican War, and was calledColonel. A little later he came to West Point as the Su

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