"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it."
— James Longstreet

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Robert E. Lee, comment to James Longstreet, on seeing a Union charge repelled in the Battle of Fredericksburg (13 December 1862)