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Why do you think Grant wrote generous terms for lee's surrendered?
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He didn't want to motivate the Confederates to take to the hills and conduct guerrilla warfare.
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Why Gen Grant's terms of surrender seemed so generous?
One reason was pragmatism. Grant did not want to take prisoners, and did not think the Union was in any danger from Confederates who had surrendered. Also, both Grant and Lee felt that this was a historic moment, and it brought out the noble side in both of them. It was a moment for gracious and magnanimous gestures.
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Robert E. Lee faced up to it that his army couldn't have gone on any longer, and he surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. His President, Jefferson Davis, was still talking wildly about fighting on, as he fled into Georgia. This was just big talk. He was in fact running away from his responsibilities.
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Why Gen Grant's terms of surrender seemed so generous?
One reason was pragmatism. Grant did not want to take prisoners, and did not think the Union was in any danger from Confederates who had surrendered. Also, both Grant and Lee felt that this was a historic moment, and it brought out the noble side in both of them. It was a moment for gracious and magnanimous gestures.
When did grant surrender to the north?
I should think that you meant R.E.Lee who surrendered to U.S.Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse April 9, 1865 unless you are referring to some alternate history .
When lee asked grant to provide food for the captured confederate soldiers what was grant's response?
If you mean after the surrender at Appomattox, then I think Grant was fairly generous about it. If it was before the surrender, he would just have said "Run up the white flag, buddy boy." He had of course ended prisoner exchange as soon as he became General-in-Chief.
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You're lucky that she was generous enough to buy it for you. It think you're being a little too generous. If you keep taking advantage of it, he won't be generous anymore.
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Why do you think General Grant allowed total war to be used to defeat lee but then offered to feed Lee's men after their surrender?
Because he was a pragmatist and a good simplifier of problems, who realised that his scorched-earth policy was the quickest way to end the war. He was not acting out of deliberate cruelty. His terms of surrender to Lee at Appomattox were so generous that Lee would not hear a word against his old enemy for the rest of his life.
Why do you think general grant allowed total war to be used to defeat lee but then offered to feed lees men after there surrender?
Grant was not acting out of personal cruelty when he applied such harsh measures in the field. He knew that attrition was the only way. After the surrender, he could afford to be generous, and he certainly was. No hangings or jailings, and a good meal for every Confederate soldier, probably their first in months.
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