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Quotes from Life and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee — Robert E. Lee

1807–1870 United States

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Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

Life and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee (1866)

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