Lee after Gettysburg: "We must let those people alone for the present"
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On July 5, 1863, Corp. William S. White and his fellow artillerists in the Richmond Howitzers withdrew from Pennsylvania to Virginia in the wake of the loss at the Battle of Gettysburg. White overheard Gen. Robert E. Lee talking to Gen. Richard Ewell. Here's what Lee said.
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