"We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation."
"What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world."
"Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self government, liberty and peace shall find him a defender." --General Robert E. Lee, in a speech to his soldiers on September 9, 1861
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"I am one of those dull creatures that cannot see the good of secession."
Robert E. Lee
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__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
“Everyone should do all in his power to collect and
disseminate the truth, in hope that truth may find a
place in history and descend to posterity. History is
not the relating of campaigns, and battles, and
generals or other individuals, but that which shows
principles. The principles for which the South
contended were government by the people, that is,
government by consent of the governed, government
limited and local, free of consolidated power. Those
principles justified the South’s struggle.” --ROBERT
E. LEE
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Keep your command together and in good spirits, General; don't let it think of surrender. I will get you out of this. --General Lee to Fitz Lee on the retreat from Petersburg
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I do not mean to say that he is not competent, but from what I have seen of him I do not know that he is. --Robert E. Lee of his artillery chief, General W.N. Pendleton
No matter what may be the ability of the officer, if he loses the confidence of his troops, disaster must sooner or later ensue. --Lee to Jefferson Davis, 1863
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