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I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to… — Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Robert E. Lee
1865
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American Civil WarNorth vs. SouthAmerican politics
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1865
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Robert E. Lee
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Lee, Robert E. Quoted in The Civil War: An Illustrated History, by Geoffrey C. Ward. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990, ch. 5.
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Lee, Robert E. Spoken to a friend who condemned the North at the end of the war. c. 1865.

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