Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA
Commanding
The Army of Northern Virginia

After only a few minutes of fighting the new Union troops were already beaten back – already stumbling down the hill to the spot where thousands of others waited, leaving piles of their dead and wounded behind. The entire hillside was blue now, except for the fifty yards immediately in front of the wall where not a single blue soldier lay. Not one.
And after all of this, at the end of the day he knew, nothing will have been gained and nothing will have been lost. Nothing but the lives of tens of thousands of men. Sickened by the needless tragedy of it all, Lee shook his head in astounded disbelief, and to James Longstreet he said, “It is well that war is so terrible – we should grow too fond of it.”

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