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So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

Robert E. Lee
War, Slavery, Engaging
Statement to John Leyburn on May 01, 1870. "R. E. Lee: A Biography" by Douglas Southall Freeman, 1934.
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.