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Robert E. Lee Quotes

1807–1870 United States

Robert Edward Lee (19 January, 1807 – 12 October, 1870) was an American soldier known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia (and eventually all the armies of the Confederacy as general-in-chief) in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865.

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Also known as: Robert E Lee

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I shall carry with me to the grave the most grateful recollections of your kind consideration and your name and fame will always be dear to me. Save for defense of my native state, I never desire again to draw my sword.

Tell Hill he must come up … Strike the tent.

Misattributed

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things … You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.

Attributed

Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

Misattributed

Fold it up and put it away.

Attributed

Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in my right hand.

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