brett: lee expected grant might make him prisoner, instead grant let lee and his men return home on their promise to not take up arms against the union again. there was at least some warm feelings he treated in victory of south justly. the way in which grant sought to encourage confederate soldiers to take a mule home to start farming, officers able to take a gun home, really sense of treating lee with great dignity. brett: it was not capstone of grant s career as a soldier but start of his second act as a statesman, for his surrender terms followed a blueprint for a reconstruction of the union that lincoln had sketched out much southern states would be welcomed back if if they
might make him prisoner, instead grant let lee and his men return home on their promise to not take up arms against the union again. there was at least some warm feelings he treated in victory of south justly. the way in which grant sought to encourage confederate soldiers to take a mule home to start farming, officers able to take a gun home, really sense of treating lee with great dignity. brett: it was not capstone of grant s career as a soldier but start of his second act as a statesman, for his surrender terms followed a blueprint for a reconstruction of the union that lincoln had sketched out much southern states would be welcomed back if if they