Lee: March, 1865

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From Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman:

(to his son) " Well, Mr. Custis, I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. I told them the condition we were in, and that something should be done at once, but I can't get them to do anything, or they are unable to do anything. Mr. Custis, when this war began I was opposed to it, bitterly opposed to it, and I told these people that unless every man should do his whole duty, they would repent it, and now they will repent."

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