Robert E. Lee1807–1870- Advice to a Confederate widow who expressed animosity towards the northern U.S. after the end of the American Civil War, as quoted in The Life and Campaigns of General Lee (1875) by Edward Lee Childe, p. 331
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union.
Letter to his son, G. W. Custis Lee (23 January 1861).
