The two men met at Appomattox. The loser would become a role model, the victor an embarrassment.
One hundred fifty years ago, in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Ulysses S. Grant won the Civil War.* His chief opponent, Gen. Robert E. Lee of the Confederate States, had surrendered, all but ending the rebellion that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives but freed millions more.
Jamelle Bouie is a Slate staff writer covering politics, policy, and race.
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