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Quotes from Letter regarding war monuments — Robert E. Lee

1807–1870 United States

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My engagements will not permit me to be present, and I believe if there I could not add anything material to the information existing on the subject. I think it wiser, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered.

Letter regarding war monuments (1869)

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