“You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason, it has been taken away.”

— Robert E. Lee

Letter to his daughter after losing Arlington http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/white-house-on-the-pamunkey/ (25 December 1861)
1860s

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Confederate general in the Civil War 1807–1870

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