Civil War Generals coloring pages - Ulysses S. Grant / Robert E. Lee

General Ulysses S. Grant was appointed commander of the Union forces by President Lincoln in early 1864. General Robert E. Lee was the primary military commander for the Confederate forces throughout the war.

The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars in human history. Railroads, steamships, mass-produced weapons, and various other military devices were employed extensively. The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, and of trench warfare around Petersburg foreshadowed World War I in Europe. It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Ten percent of all Northern males 20-45 years of age died, as did 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18-40.