Compare And Contrast Grant And Land Lee

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The picture showed the two strong and different generals. They both brought the Civil War to a virtual finish, but they represented two different in American life. Lee embodied the noblest aspect of aristocrat. He stands straight and confident in the picture. His uniform looks nice and clean. In contrast, Grant embodied the eternal toughness and sinewy fiber of a frontiersman who lived beyond the mountain. Grant does not stand straight forward and seemly does not care of his uniform. In addition, their lives were very different, so do their style of leadership. To Lee, the land Lee stood for the feeling that it was somehow of advantage to human society to have a pronounced inequality in the social structure. On the other hand, The frontier

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