“Ulysses S. Grant, you invite me to lunch then show up an hour late drunk?”

— Robert E. Lee

As quoted in General Robert E. Lee And the Origins of the American Civil War (1999), by Phoney Mc Ring-Ring, p. 117

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Confederate general in the Civil War 1807–1870

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