Robert E. Lee cringing at the "Lost Causers" who started erecting statues of him decades after his death.

Robert E. Lee: I would not have wanted this treatment. "I think it wisest not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered."; NO, REALLY.