Write a paper that compares and contrasts the leadership styles of the two main adversaries of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee and U.S. Grant, and how they dealt with command, control and leadership. Additionally, your paper should reflect how the Command and Control aspects of these two generals compares with current Command and Control structure.
Leadership in historical context—The US Civil War (1860-1865) is the most important aspect of the American Story. Many leaders emerged during the Civil War but the most important are Robert E Lee and Ulysses S Grant.

Both men studied at West Point and fought in the Mexican War prior to the Civil War. Historians, students and interested people have studied these two leaders for the last 150 years. How do you evaluate these leaders?
Your task is to: 1) write your rubric to evaluate each of these leaders. 2) read and research about each leader. 3) Determine how each leader satisfies or fails in your rubric. 4) Compare and contrast the command and control of each leader 5) Compare these two leaders on two modern leaders. This work should be your personal analysis and your rubric should be unique. You will discuss in your paper how you arrived at your evaluation points. Lessons applicable today. As you all know the war ended at Appomattox Courthouse, but how did the leaders react to the end of the war, and what impact did that have on their leadership.

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