“I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself.”

— Robert E. Lee

Comment regarding officers who became inebriated, as quoted in Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1874) by John William Jones, p. 170

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Confederate general in the Civil War 1807–1870

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