Nothing can compensate me for that! And I think it's rather tragic if he truly believed that because it's almost like showing a sense of disappointment in his whole life, that the whole trajectory of his life from the time that he first went to West Point had come out to be something that he viewed as being a mistake, a failure, something he regretted.
And so he did believe that they could stand at the pass.
To know that I shall never see her again on earth…is agonizing in the extreme.
Lee died age 81 on April 5, 1993, of liver cancer in Arlington, Virginia.
He became military advisor to Confederate President Jefferson Davis and, on July 28, the president asked him to coordinate the defenses of Western Virginia, where the citizens were attempting to create a new, Union-loyal state and Confederate arms had already met with defeat at Philippi and in the Big Kanawha Valley.
Not one to go to parties or to drink, while most did, including Future General Ulysses s.