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Robert E. Lee Quotes: We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
         

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.


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