Class Year
2019
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
1-24-2018
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
Before they were great Civil War generals, Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant were fathers. Lee had seven children, three sons and four daughters. Grant was the father of three boys and a single girl. Though they are intended to paint overwhelmingly positive portraits of the two men, their children’s words give us a sense of these two generals as fathers and the ways in which they reflected standard trends in fathering during the Victorian Era. [excerpt]
Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Cocco, Abigail, "Lee and Grant: Images of Fatherhood in Victorian America" (2018). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 266.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/266
Comments
This blog post originally appeared in The Gettysburg Compiler and was created by students at Gettysburg College.