For years, Lee got much more respect from the ordinary American than Grant both as a military leader and as a personality. But historians have long been teaching that Grant was not only the better general but also the better man.
‘Mrs Grant and Madame Jule’ by Jennifer Chiaverini
A novelist imagines how Julia Grant’s real-life enslaved maid Jule might have felt about slavery, freedom, the Civil War, and the romance of Julia and Ulysses S. Grant.